About

Susanna Crossman is an award-winning Anglo-French fiction writer and essayist, published internationally in print and online.

‘Home is Where we Start’, a memoir about her childhood in a utopian commune, is out with Fig Tree/Penguin 08/2024. It is a Guardian  2024 “Book to Look Out For!”

‘The Orange Notebooks’ her new novel will be published by Bluemoose Books in 2025. Bookbrunch “Susanna Crossman’s first novel in English goes to Bluemoose”.

She was a 2022 Hawthornden Fellow, and her novel L’île sombre (La croisée/Editions Delcourt)was published in 2021. She has recent work in Aeon, Paris Review, Neue Rundschau, S. Fischer (translated into German) alongside John Berger and Anne Carson, Berfrois and elsewhere. Winner of the LoveReading Short Story Award 2019, she was nominated for Best of The Net Non-Fiction. Member of the Dangerous Women project, her writing has been short-listed for the Bristol Prize and Glimmertrain.

She regularly collaborates in international hybrid arts projects, currently, The Dinner Party Reloaded, a series of virtual gatherings with artists and writers with Lucy Writers, and the French animation “Arêtes” with Thierry Garance. Susanna Crossman’s prose-film collaboration, 360° of Morning, with New York artist and composer Michael Dickes and Spanish photographer Juanan Requena was screened internationally. She co-wrote the French novel, L’Hôpital, Le dessous des Cartes (LEH, 2015).

When she is not writing, she works internationally with individuals, hospitals and organisations as a clinical arts therapist and lecturer (Sarah Lawrence College, NY, Université de Rennes 1, Ecole d’art-thérapie de Tours...) specialising in non-verbal communication, psychiatric care, creativity and culture. She also runs projects bringing together artists, patients and staff in mental health organisations. Her research work is published in France, Korea and Germany.

She studied Drama at Exeter University and has Masters’ degrees from the Université de Rennes 2 and Université Francois Rabelais. She has lived in France for nearly half her life. Susanna has three daughters. She is represented by Jessica Craig at Craig Literary.