Susie Wild is author of two poetry collections (Better Houses and Windfalls), the short story collection The Art of Contraception and the novella Arrivals.[3] Released in 2010, The Art of Contraception was her first solo publication, and won 'Fiction Book of the Year' in the Welsh Icons Awards 2010.[4] It was also listed for the Edge Hill Prize.
Her work has recently featured in Carol Ann Duffy's pandemic project Write Where We Are Now, The Atlanta Review, Ink, Sweat & Tears and Poetry Wales. She placed second in the Welshpool Poetry Festival Competition 2020, was highly commended in the Prole Laureate Prize 2020, was shortlisted for an Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month 2020 and longlisted in the Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2018. Born in London, she lives in Cardiff.[5]
Wild is Parthian's publishing editor, specialising in poetry and fiction. With Parthian since 2007, she's worked with award-winning writers including Mari Elis Dunning, Lloyd Markham and Rebecca F. John.[6][7] In 2025, off the back of their new publishing partnership with Parthian, Wild was appointed the new editor of the long-standing Welsh literary journal New Welsh Review.[8]
Following an MA in creative writing from Swansea University and an MA in journalism from Goldsmiths, Wild has also built a portfolio career in the arts as a journalist, festival and events organiser, performer, editor and university lecturer.[9]
