Suzanne Scott Tomita was born in Tunisia and raised in Venezuela, Germany, Indonesia, Canada, and Australia. Her writing includes personal essays on the topic of motherhood, mid-life, and marriage published in Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail. She has published on the topic of home and belonging in Expat Living Singapore.
Suzanne has a PhD in Education from The University of British Columbia. In 2014, Suzanne completed The Writer’s Studio (TWS) Creative Writing Certificate at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada where she studied with writers Kevin Chong and Wayde Compton. At TWS she wrote the beginnings of her debut novel, a selected chapter of which is published in Emerge, SFU Publications.
Set during the racial tensions of post-colonial Singapore, and contemporary London, Until Even the Angels, is the story of an unlikely friendship between Mei Mei Goh, the domestic servant girl to the wealthy Hamilton family, and young Honour Hamilton. This literary crime novel questions the meaning of motherhood, childhood, belonging, and memory.
Suzanne completed an advanced fiction course with author Claire Keegan in 2023 at the Asia Creative Writing Programme, a collaboration between the National Arts Council of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. When she’s not reading or writing, Suzanne walks Singapore’s nature parks and visits museums imagining characters for her next novel. She lives in Singapore with her family.
