Susan Rudy is a writer and academic based in London. Her recent work includes Consequences (above/ground press, 2026), part of the longer Hand Over project, and the chapbook YOU, currently under review at the Royal Academy of Art’s draught journal. She is also Professor Emerita at the University of Calgary and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. From 2021-2024, she taught creative non-fiction and poetry at Birkbeck University of London.
Susan thanks the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity (2024) and Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver (2026) for supporting her creative practice through their writing residency programs.
About
Susan Rudy’s writing and research focus on what poetic and experimental writing can teach us about gendered experience. Through her practice, she aims to create space for voices that are often silenced or split—especially those navigating complex relationships to gender, care, and creativity.
Work in progress includes Hand Over, a poetic and experimental book of experimental and poetic nonfiction and a 55-page chapbook entitled YOU.
Projects
Writing Retreats
Susan is an active participant in and organiser of writing groups and retreats.
Currently developing a series of retreats based in London and Wivenhoe. Reach out if that sounds interesting to you.
2026 Publications
Chapbook
Book chapter
Consequences
Ottawa: above/ground press, 2026, as the thirty-third title in above/ground press’s innovative prose imprint, prose/naut. Available online in the UK at Housmans and, in Canada, through above/ground press.
Who Cares If There Are No Women? An Intergenerational Conversation About Queer Parenting
In Revolutionizing Motherlines, eds. Fiona Joy Green, Victoria Bailey, and Andrea O’Reilly, Toronto: Demeter Press, 2026. 145-170.
With Hannah Silva.
Write me an email or message me on Bluesky.
If all else fails, you can call me: +44 7851212082.
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