Suzy A Kelly was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in the mid-1970s and is a doctoral research student in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, where they are supervised by Dr Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Professor Rory O’Connor, Director of the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, and Dr Dahlia Porter. Suzy holds the MLitt in Creative Writing (Dist.) from the same university.
After decades roaming the back wynds of Edinburgh and the wild beaches of the Highlands and Islands, Suzy has returned home to Ayrshire to live by Rab Burns’ auld houf with their two four cats, Agatha, Dame Ruby, Fonzie and Luna.
During 2024, Suzy is completing work on their debut gothic historical crime thriller, Vile Deeds of the Amazing Crab Girl, which combines Victorian street orphans with serial killing stage magicians. Opening in Victorian Glasgow, the novel transports the reader to Belle Époque Paris before reaching the electric chair in Gilded Age upstate New York.
Suzy is also completing the memoir on which the above named novel is based. The Autonaut explores Suzy’s mental and physical recovery from the effects of dating dangerous, charismatic men prone to using coercive control and non-fatal strangulation.
In 2021, Suzy was one of ten emerging writers commissioned by Nadine Aisha Jassat and the National Library of Scotland to write about their experiences of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic for the FRESH INK initiative. You can read ‘A Most Peculiar Way’ here.
Suzy’s shorter fiction is rooted in the dark folklore, superstitions, and languages of Scotland and is published in New Writing Scotland, Northwords Now, Gutter Magazine, and by the British Fantasy Society.
Their short story, ‘Thrum’ , based on their experiences of miscarriage, was published in New Writing Scotland 37 and was selected for inclusion in A. L. Kennedy’s Short Story Masterclass in St Andrews in 2018. A version of this story won the Imprint Writing Awards in 2017.
Suzy is a full member of The Society of Authors as of 2024 and is now seeking literary representation.
In addition, Suzy is a member of Ayr Writers’ Club, the Scottish Association of Writers, and the Federation of Writers (Scotland).
Aye, but who is Suzy A Kelly?
Suzy is a sweary, spoonie, pansexual, disabled, non-binary, intersectional feminist, and AuDHD writer from Scotland who is diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and Myalgic encephalomyelitis. They are usually referred to as being ‘a bit much’.
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