
About Susan
Susan Richardson is a writer, performer and educator whose work celebrates and defends animals and wild places, re-engaging our imaginations with them and inspiring deep connections with the more-than-human world.
Her debut work of creative non-fiction, Where the Seals Sing, is published by William Collins. She has also written four collections of poetry, the latest of which, Words the Turtle Taught Me, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award.
Susan is represented by Charlotte Atyeo of Greyhound Literary.
Blending Natural History and Travel, Memoir and Myth…
With their expressive eyes and whiskers more sensitive than our fingertips, grey seals have visited our shores and enriched our culture for centuries. Yet we still know relatively little about these extraordinary animals.
In Where the Seals Sing, her new work of creative non-fiction, Susan journeys to the crags and crevices of Britain’s coast and islands, learning not only how grey seals live but also, in the light of the many threats they face, how we should live more sympathetically with them.
Blending Natural History and Travel, Memoir and Myth…
With their expressive eyes and whiskers more sensitive than our fingertips, grey seals have visited our shores and enriched our culture for centuries. Yet we still know relatively little about these extraordinary animals.
In Where the Seals Sing, her new work of creative non-fiction, Susan journeys to the crags and crevices of Britain’s coast and islands, learning not only how grey seals live but also, in the light of the many threats they face, how we should live more sympathetically with them.
Latest news
Some Past and Future EventsSusan is currently enjoying being involved, as a writing workshop facilitator, in 'Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis', a University of Kent-based project. She has also been commissioned to write a new sequence of poems that explores the project's theme.
Coming up in April in Pembrokeshire – Writing the Wild, exploring the climate and nature emergency via engagement with the local coastal environment. Devised and facilitated by Susan, and supported by WWF Cymru and Literature Wales.
An edited extract from 'Where the Seals Sing' was published in The Scotsman Magazine and it was featured, too, in Coast magazine as a Book of the Month. Susan was also delighted to be invited to contribute an article about grey seals to BBC Wildlife magazine.