Susanna Crossman

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. It is a Guardian 2024 “Book to Look Out For!” The book began with her Aeon essay ‘The Utopian Machine’, which went viral in 2022.

Her new novel, ‘The Orange Notebooks’ will be published by Bluemoose Books in 2025. She has recent work in The Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review, Neue Rundschau, S. Fischer, Berfrois & elsewhere. She was a 2022 Hawthornden Fellow, and her novel L’île sombre (La croisée/Editions Delcourt) was published in 2021. Winner of the 2019 LoveReading Short Story Award, she was nominated for Best of The Net Non-Fiction and is a member of the Dangerous Women project.

Books in order of publication:

Home is Where We Start – 2024

The Orange Notebooks – 2025