Susan Rudy is a queer writer and feminist theorist. Based in London and Wivenhoe in the UK, she travels regularly to Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary in Canada.
A Professor Emerita at the University of Calgary and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, her creative practice was supported by a six-week Leighton Artists’ Studio Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity in 2024. From 2021-2024 she taught creative non-fiction and poetry at Birkbeck University of London.
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 very creative 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.
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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