Suzanne Clores is the author of Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider (Conari, 2000) a memoir/ethnography of alternate spiritual practices, and founder of The Extraordinary Project, an online collection of exceptional human experiences soon to be a podcast. Her personal essays have appeared in Salon, Elle, The Rumpus, and The Nervous Breakdown, and have aired on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) and the Radiotopia podcast Strangers. Her BA is from Columbia University, and her MFA is from the University of Arizona. She lives in Evanston, IL with her family.