She left Boston to join her mother and sister who were living in Colorado for health reasons and enrolled at the University of Denver.
After her mother died, Suckow moved to Earlville, a small town in eastern Iowa just west of Dubuque.
In 1934, Farrar & Rinehart published Suckow's longest novel, The Folks, which followed the lives of a small-town Iowa family and was a Literary Guild selection.
[3] Suckow's book New Hope (1942) portrays Hawarden during the period from 1890 to 1910 and describes the two-year stay of a young minister in the life of a new town.
After their marriage, the couple lived in various parts of the United States, from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to rural New England.
In the mid-1930s, they spent two years in Washington, D.C., where Nuhn worked on various forms of editing and writing for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which was then under the direction of fellow Iowan Henry A. Wallace.
At the camp in Waldport, Oregon, she met the poet William Everson and continued to correspond with him for several years after the war.
They moved to Tucson, Arizona, and later to their final home in Claremont, California, where they were active in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Suckow died in 1960 at her home in Claremont, California, and is interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
"[citation needed] Suckow's childhood home has been preserved at Calliope Village in Hawarden, Iowa.