Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins is an American author and screenwriter, best known for The Hunger Games trilogy and The Underland Chronicles.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, she was the youngest of four children of a career U.S. Air Force officer, and a childhood spent moving between postings — including the year her father served in Vietnam — shaped a recurring subject in her work: war seen through a child's eyes.

She began her career in 1991 writing for children's television, contributing to Nickelodeon programmes including Clarissa Explains It All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, and serving as head writer for the PBS series Clifford's Puppy Days. Her first novel, Gregor the Overlander (2003), opened the five-book Underland Chronicles.

The Hunger Games followed in 2008, with Catching Fire and Mockingjay completing the trilogy, and the prequels The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020) and Sunrise on the Reaping (2025). She has also written the picture books When Charlie McButton Lost Power and the autobiographical Year of the Jungle. She lives in Connecticut.