Sue Murtagh lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press published her debut short story collection, We're Not Rich, in October 2024. Award-winning writer Alexander MacLeod edited the linked collection. Sue’s work has appeared in The Walrus, The New Quarterly, Grain, carte blanche, the Humber Literary Review, yolkliterary.ca, and The Nashwaak Review.

In 2016, she won the Budge Wilson short fiction prize in the Atlantic Writing Competition. Sue is a graduate of the Alistair MacLeod mentorship program (Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia) and the Humber School for Writers. She is the judge for the David Adams Richards Prize in the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick’s 2025 writing competition.