Susan Wicks is the author of seven collections of poetry, three novels (one of which, The Key, was serialised on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour), a short memoir, Driving My Father (Faber, 1995 and Basic Books, 1996) and a collection of stories, Roll Up for the Arabian Derby (bluechrome, 2009). Her first collection, Singing Underwater (Faber, 1992) won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward First Collection Prize, as well as being a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her second, Open Diagnosis (Faber, 1994) was one of the Poetry Society’s ‘New Generation Poets’ titles. Her third, The Clever Daughter (Faber, 1997), was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for both T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Her most recent, The Months (Bloodaxe, 2016), is also a PBS Recommendation.
She has read her work a number of times on national radio and television, on the South Bank in London and in the British National Theatre, as well as at many literary festivals in Britain and abroad. She has been awarded writing fellowships in Europe and the United States, including MacDowell and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in the US, Cove Park in Scotland, the Villa Mont Noir in Northern France and the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Sweden.
She has translated two books of poems by the French poet, Valérie Rouzeau. Cold Spring in Winter (Pas Revoir) (Arc, 2009) won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize and was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and Canada’s international Griffin Prize for Poetry. Talking Vrouz (Arc, 2013) won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize.
She is a freelance writer, teacher and translator.
Susan Wicks
Studios
Garland
Susan Wicks worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…