Susan D. Hill graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and worked in human resource management for ten years. She served as a leader with Bible Study Fellowship and Young Life, and currently works with Uganda Orphans Fund, a non-profit NGO founded by her husband, Duncan Hill. Since 2002, UOF has built over thirty orphanages or schools for AIDS and war orphans, and other vulnerable children in Uganda. Hill started writing for publication in 2003 through magazine articles with Light & Life, War Cry, AWE, Christian Educators Journal and World magazine. WaterBrook Press/Random House released her spiritual memoir in February 2008: Closer Than Your Skin: Unwrapping the Mystery of Intimacy with God.