Suzette Mayr is the author of the novels The Sleeping Car Porter, Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall, Monoceros, Moon Honey, The Widows, and Venous Hum. Monoceros won the ReLit Award, the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, and was longlisted for a Scotiabank Giller Prize. Monoceros was also nominated for a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and in 2011 it was included on The Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of the year. The Widows was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean region. Moon Honey was shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Best First Book and Best Novel Awards.

Mayr has done inter-disciplinary work with Calgary theatre company Theatre Junction, visual artists Lisa Brawn and Geoff Hunter, and she was a writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary and at Widener University, Pennsylvania. She is a former President of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. Mayr currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. She and her partner live in a house across the street from a park teeming with coyotes.