Susannah Lewis has been recording podcasts since she was in college. She learned how to edit in Adobe Audition, and quickly realized how fun it was. She had two other podcasts before Thornvale, one an interview show and one a movie review show. She is a freelance photographer and writer.​She has always been a storyteller. Her parents tell her that she used to tell herself stories to go to sleep at night when she was still sleeping in a crib. She used to write short comic strips featuring characters of her own creation. However, since she was cursed with a tragic lack of the ability to draw, she moved over to novel writing in her teens. Eventually, she learned screenwriting, radio writing, and how to write campaigns for RPGs.