Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author/editor of 12 books. She has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, American Prospect, Atlantic Monthly, Toronto Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and many other publications. She is currently co-editing a series of books for Cornell University Press on the Culture and Politics of Health Care Work.

Gordon is a popular lecturer and past commentator for CBS Radio and Public Radio International’s "Marketplace" program.

She is Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Assistant, Adjunct Professor at the the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She has also co-authored, with Lisa Hayes, a play entitled Bedside Manners, that deals with nurse/doctor relationship.