Susan Sellers

Susan Sellers is a British author, translator, editor and novelist. She is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews, and co-General Editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of the writings of Virginia Woolf. Sellers' first novel, Vanessa and Virginia, is a fictionalised account of the life of Vanessa Bell and of her complex relationship with her sister (Two Ravens, 2008 and Harcourt, New York). It has also been translated into sixteen languages, including Chinese (Nanjing University Press, 2012), Spanish (emece, 2011), Turkish (Sel, 2011), French (editions autrement, 2011), Swedish (Ordfront, 2010) and Dutch (Artemis, 2009), and was adapted for the stage by Elizabeth Wright in 2009, touring in the UK, France, Germany and Poland and culminating in a 3-week run at Riverside Studios, London (Moving Stories Theatre, see references). Her second novel, Given the Choice, is set in the contemporary art and music worlds, focusses on a strong and contentious central character, Marion, and gives the reader a choice of three possible endings. As the cover explains, "Given the Choice is a novel about growing older and growing up, about making choices and learning to live with them."