Susan Rudy

Susan Rudy is a writer and academic. Internationally recognised for her work on gender and experimental writing, she is the author, co-author, or editor of four books and dozens of journal articles, book chapters, special issues, opinion pieces, and reviews. Based in Canada until 2011 when she moved to London, her first poems were published in the 1980s. In 1988, she completed a PhD at Toronto’s York University and took up an academic position at the University of Calgary, where she served until 2016. She is Honorary Professor of English at the University of East Anglia, Professor Emerita at the University of Calgary, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London where she volunteers as Director of the Centre for Poetry. Since September 2021, she has been teaching poetry and creative non-fiction at Birkbeck, University of London. Public-facing work may be found at The New Statesman. Work in progress includes Identifying Women, her first book of creative non-fiction.