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Susan is a novelist, a literary and cultural critic, translator of Hélène Cixous and editor of Virginia Woolf. Her award-winning fiction has been widely translated and her non-fiction includes studies of feminism, gender and women’s literary history. She has also published collections on the art of writing. She was the first woman to be made a Professor in the fields of Literature in English and Creative Writing at St Andrews University and in Scotland. She has held residencies and lectured around the world and is a regular broadcaster. She is delighted to have been appointed a Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation in 2025.