Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell was born in Adelaide, South Australia, has degrees from the University of Adelaide and Flinders University and is an Adjunct Professor at Flinders University in Creative Writing where she was recently a Writer-in -Residence. She has lived and worked in London, New York, Melbourne, Brisbane,and Sydney.

Her passion for communicating with the widest possible audience has included broadcasting her own programs on both the ABC and commercial radio, and presenting her own television interview programs, "Tall Poppies" and "Susan Mitchell in Conversation."

She broke new ground when she wrote her first book "Tall Poppies", intimate portraits of successful Australian women. In her following thirteen books she has continued to document and celebrate the lives of Australian women in Sport, politics, the arts, Business and many other aspects of Australian life, together with the lives of American writers who have inspired her and the world. Her books have been published in the USA, the UK, Germany, Holland and New Zealand.

She has been a director on The Literature Board of the Australia Council, The Board of Film Australia and the board of the South Australian Tourism Commission. She is also a book reviewer, a columnist, a journalist and a public speaker.

Her heroines are Simone de Beauvoir and Mae West.