Susan Rudy
$6
Telling the truth about my own experiences as a body
That kiss in Mrs Dalloway.
That life is complicated is a fact of great analytical importance.
That sickening moment when I realise, sitting across the table and listening to her story, that I feel scorn for conventional women.
That’s great, he said, how wonderful.
That’s the fiction of memoir, that you can actually remember.
The ‘wife’ he refers to in the Cabaret video, while singing ‘Fancy Free’, the wife who was me, where is she now?
The abandonment of a prescribed way of living for the abyss of self-determination.
The ache of desire, pushed away.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
as the thirty-third title in above/ground’s prose/naut imprint
April 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Cover Artwork by Alisa Ochoa
Susan Rudy is a London-based academic and writer whose work creates space for voices that are often silenced or split—especially those navigating complex relationships to gender, care, and creativity.
She works with language as archive and medium, drawing on decades of journal entries and academic research to assemble texts that challenge conventional memoir and academic prose.
Professor Emerita at the University of Calgary, she has been based in London, England since 2011 where she is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
Recent publications include a conversation about queer parenting (2026) with writer Hannah Silva, a creative piece at London’s Something Other (2025), and interviews with writer Caroline Bergvall (2023) and feminist theorist Clare Hemmings (2019).
Work in progress includes Hand Over, a poetic and experimental book of creative nonfiction which emerged during a six-week Leighton Artists’ Studio Residency at Canada’s Banff Centre for the Arts in 2024.
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