Susannah DickeySusannah Dickey is a writer from Derry. She is the author of two novels, Tennis Lessons (2020) and Common Decency (2022), which was an Irish Waterstones Book of the Month. Her debut poetry collection, ISDAL, was a Guardan and Irish Times Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the John Pollard Prize, and won the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize. She was the winner of the 2024 Irish Chair of Poetry Travel Award and was a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2020, and her poetry and poetry criticism has appeared in the Poetry Review, Poetry London, the TLS, and Poetry Ireland Review. Her short fiction has appeared in The Dublin Review, The Fence, and The White Review, was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award and shortlisted in The Moth Nature Writing Prize. She has had fiction and nonfiction broadcast on BBC R4 and BBC R3. Read More Read Less