She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1987 from Villanova University, where she was an editor of the student newspaper The Villanovan.
[1] She earned a master's degree in investigative journalism from Ohio State University on a Kiplinger Fellowship in 1992.
[2][3] Before joining The Baltimore Sun, Sugg was a reporter with the Associated Press in Philadelphia, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal in South Carolina, and the Sacramento Bee.
[6] Sugg married Albert Wu, an internist and public health researcher, on February 14, 2004.
[6] The Pulitzer committee noted her "absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people.