1. Susie Bright was a member of the high school underground newspaper The Red Tide and served as the plaintiff suing the Los Angeles Board of Education for the right of minors to distribute their own publications without prior censorship or approval.
Susie Bright was a member of the International Socialists from 1974 to 1976 and worked as a labor and community organizer in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit, and Louisville, Kentucky.
Susie Bright was one of the founding members of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, and wrote under the pseudonym Sue Daniels in both The Red Tide and Workers' Power.
Susie Bright founded the Good Vibrations Erotic Video Library, the first feminist curation of erotic films available at the time.
Susie Bright co-edited with Jill Posener and published a portfolio of lesbian erotic photography titled Nothing but the Girl, with 30 interviews with the photographers.
Susie Bright founded the first women's erotica book-series Herotica and edited the first three volumes.
Susie Bright started the national bestselling The Best American Erotica series in 1993.
Susie Bright was the first female member of the X-Rated Critics Organization in 1986 and was voted into the XRCO Hall of Fame, 5th Estate, in 2005.
Susie Bright produced, co-wrote and starred in two plays, Girls Gone Bad and Knife, Paper, Scissors.
In 2013, Susie Bright donated her archives to the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library.
Susie Bright was an editor-at-large and executive producer at Audible Inc between 2012 and 2023.
Susie Bright has been nominated or awarded an Audie Award four times, including for her production of The Autobiography of Malcolm X Susie Bright has produced audiobook titles by Margaret Atwood, Pablo Neruda, Che Guevara, Frank O'Hara, Martin Luther King, Cornel West, Gary Snyder, Charles Bukowski, Noam Chomsky, Ron Kovic and Bruce Springsteen, Betty Medsger, Dorothy Allison, Dan Savage, Tony Hillerman, Joy Harjo, Octavia Butler, and Dave Hickey.
Susie Bright's stepmother is Lise Menn, and her stepbrothers are Joseph Menn and Stephen Menn.
Susie Bright lived with her partner Honey Lee Cottrell in the 1980s.
Susie Bright is married to Jon Bailiff, with whom she has one daughter, Aretha Bright.