Susanna Sloat is a writer, editor, and arts consultant in New York City who has written about a diverse range of dance. She is the editor of Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity (winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize for 2003) and of Making Caribbean Dance: Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures. She served as a Center panelist in dance from 2009–10 and as a LOI panelist in 2011.