SUSAN FINLAY
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Susan's latest novel, The Jacques Lacan Foundation, received glowing reviews in Prospect, Tribune, and WORMS. It was a White Review Book of the Year and many UK bookstore and art galleries' Recommended Read. Her latest writing project, an (anti-)memoir entitled The Lives of the Artists, also received great coverage in Berlin Art Link, Crack Magazine, The Arts Desk, The Glasgow Review of Books, Impulse, and The Irish Times. Plus there's a very nice article on the books that influenced it in Frieze. 

​Prior to this, Susan produced three other critically acclaimed, experimental-ish novels, as well as poems and short stories for publications including POETRY, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Stinging Fly, and cultural criticism for magazines like Tate Etc., the TLS, Spike, and Motor Dance Journal. She has co-curated exhibitions such as Inland Far, devised performances for Artefact Projects and literary programmes for a.p, and taught at art and design institutions in both  Europe and the UK (an archive of her artworks can be accessed here). Recent residencies include Callie's and RUPERT.

In 2018, Susan and her father founded independent press MOIST, which Susan co-ran until the end of May 2025. Since January 2025 she has been one of three co-editors at JOAN.
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​Contact: beyondsusan[at]hotmail.com
Instagram: @susanellenfinlay

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