Susan Blanshard

Susan Blanshard was born in Hampshire, England. She is a best-selling author, and an internationally acclaimed poet and essayist.

The daughter of a Naval officer, diplomat, film-maker and photographer, she experienced a nomadic childhood. Consequently, her literary work is coloured by her multicultural past and present.

Susan is author of Sheetstone: Memoir for a Lover (Published by Spuyten Duyvil, 2006), a book length poem. Sleeping With the Artist, poetic prose, Quieter Histories: Poems, Poems From The Ally, Send The Raven: Poems, and she co-authored Cutter: Art Of Blood Literary Crime Thriller.

She is revisionist poetry editor for more than twenty books in translation: poetry, short-stories, including the winner of the Cikada Poetry Prize, Sweden.

Selected poetry from 'Evidence of Obsession' and 'Perfume River' are published in The World's Literary Magazine, Projected Letters, Six Bricks Press and Arabesque Magazine. Her essays published in Lotus International Women's Magazine, ICORN International Cities of Refuge. P.E.N International Women Writers' Magazine. And PEN International Writers Committee The Fourth Anthology, Our Voice, Nuestra Voz, Notre Voix, Biblioteca De Textos Universitarios, Argentina. Her collection of poetry and essays 2000-2007, Fragments of the Human Heart. Her essays The Pillow Book, Four Recipes, The Traveler, Orientation, published in Arts And Culture, Lotus International Magazine, Hanoi.