Sue McAuley (Clarkson) was brought up in Castleford, West Yorkshire, where she lived until 2008.
From a very early age, she was an animal lover, starting with a drawer full of pet mice (much to her parents' dismay) when she was eight years old. She doesn't recall where her love for all things equine originated, but she bought her first pony as a fourteen-year-old from money raised washing up in a local cafe.
Sue moved to the rural village of Ealand, North Lincolnshire, in 2008 "to give her ponies a better life." It was here in this village that she came across a wild Highland cow that had escaped months previously. It is Sue's interactions with this cow that inspired her to write Moo, her first novel.
Sue is also a keen watercolour artist specializing in landscapes and, of course, animals.