Suzanne Palmer is a science fiction author. Palmer received the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for “The Secret Life of Bots” and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the novella “Waterlines” in 2020. Palmer received her B.F.A in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she was the head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society. Palmer is also a Linux and database system administrator for the Sciences at Smith College.