JCU to Welcome Susan Bradley Smith as Summer 2023 Writer in Residence
John Cabot University is pleased to announce that Australian poet Susan Bradley Smith will be the Summer 2023 Writer in Residence for the JCU Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation. Bradley Smith is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
Susan Bradley Smith
Bradley Smith holds a Ph.D. in English and is a graduate playwright of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). An award-winning creative writer and essayist, her areas of research interest are bibliotherapy, feminist cultural and literary history, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Since beginning her professional writing life as an Arts journalist in Sydney and London she has worked as an academic in both Australia and the U.K., publishing extensively as a literary critic, theatre historian, and creative writer.
A regular media commentator and former host of Literary Links at the London Australian High Commission, her books include the verse novel The Screaming Middle, the poetry collection Beds For All Who Come, and the memoir Friday Forever. In 2013 Susan founded the writing and wellbeing consultancy Milkwood Bibliotherapy, building on her award-winning work in the Medical Humanities. She is the Artistic Director of the Lennox Head Poetry Festival, founded in 2017. Her latest books are the poetry collection Gladland, and the suffrage theatre history A Splendid Adventure.
“We are very excited to have Susan Bradley Smith as our 2023 Writer in Residence. Our students will benefit greatly from Susan’s presence. And the JCU and wider Rome communities will love her events—she is a great reader of her work and her profound humanity lifts all spirits. We can’t wait for her to be with us,” said Carlos Dews, Director of the JCU Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
The Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation brings together students and faculty from around the world to study creative writing and the art of literary translation in the historic center of Rome. This Summer, the Institute will offer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Classes are taught in English and meet from Monday to Thursday for five weeks (May 22 to June 23, 2023).
Past Writers in Residence for the JCU Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation included Canadian-American poet James Arthur (2022), critically acclaimed novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez (2018), award-winning novelist Susan Minot (2016), National Book Critics Circle Award winner Edmund White (2015), Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri (2013), and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins (2013).
