Knowledge is under fire. Misinformation is rising.
We need to turn ideas and facts into compelling stories for audiences who are looking for both bedrock and an escape.
I think nonfiction – whether it’s popular, scholarly, or creative – has a crucial role to play in shaping our world, and I’m on a mission to help it reach those audiences.
I’m Susanna Forrest, author of the global history The Age of the Horse and the memoir/cultural history, If Wishes Were Horses. I’ve published chapters on my original research in academic collections and won the Sophie Coe Memorial Prize for an Essay on Food History and the John Heygate Award for travel writing from the Society of Authors. I’ve been a writer in residence and published work in The Atlantic, the Guardian, the Paris Review Daily, and many other prestigious publications. I also taught a popular creative nonfiction course at The Reader, Berlin for seven years.
You can read about my writing here.