Susan Johnson (Australian author)

Susan Johnson (born 1956) is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays. She has been a full-time writer since 1985, with occasional stints of journalism at Australian newspapers, journals and magazines.^[1]

Johnson was born in 1956, in Brisbane, Queensland. She spent her childhood in Sydney, attending St Ives High School In New South Wales and then Nambour High School and Clayfield College in Queensland. She was formerly Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, Queensland University of Technology.^[2]

At the National Library of Australia Johnson delivered the 2011 Ray Mathew Lecture^[3] entitled "Prodigal Daughter", in which she explored the topic of expatriate Australian women authors, her ambivalent relationship to Australia, and Australia's attitude towards its artists.^[4]

Susan Johnson was on the program to appear in 3 events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.^[5]

• Latitudes: New Writing From The North, University of Queensland Press, 1986. ISBN 0-7022-2021-3
• Messages from Chaos Harper and Row, 1987. ISBN 0-06-312091-7
• Flying Lessons, Heinemann 1990. ISBN 0-85561-344-0
• A Big Life, MacMillan, 1993. ISBN 0-7329-0772-1
• Women Love Sex, Vintage, 1996. ISBN 0-09-183255-1
• A Better Woman: A Memoir Random House, 1999. ISBN 0-09-183551-8
• The Broken Book, Allan & Unwin, 2005. ISBN 1-74114-351-9^[6][7]
• Life in Seven Mistakes, Heinemann, 2008. ISBN 978-1-86325-615-5^{[8][9][10][11]}
• On Beauty, Melbourne University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-522-85602-6^[12]
• My Hundred Lovers, Allen & Unwin, 2012. ISBN 9781741756357
• The Landing, Allen & Unwin, 2015. ISBN 9781760113933
• From Where I Fell, Allen & Unwin, 2021. ISBN 9781760876555
• Aphrodite’s Breath, Allen & Unwin, 2023. ISBN 9781760876562

• "Outside manners", pp. 206–215, in: Destroying the joint, edited by Jane Caro, Read How You Want (2015, ISBN 9781459687295).

• 1985: Australia Council Literature Board New Writers Grant^[3]
• 1989: Nancy Keesing Fellowship at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris.^[3]

• Official website
• Pandora (Australia's Web Archive, archiving Susan Johnson's 'A Better Woman' blog as one of significance
• http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Johnson%2C%20Susan%2C%201956-%22&iknowwhatimean=1