A 5th generation Californian and long-time resident of Rancho Murieta, Susan Hart Snyder has published personal and motivational essays, feature, and travel articles in newspapers and magazines, including Cosumnes River Valley newspapers, the Murieta Times in the 1980s, and the River Valley Times in the 2020s. She has also written and published a novel series - the Sydney Roberts Series; an essay collection - Living the Little Things, and a non-fiction book titled, To Where the Sun Sets: A Family History in Stories - How to Find and Tell Your Own.