Susanna Roxman

Susanna Roxman (Pia) Susanna (Ellinor) Roxman is an Anglophone writer, poet and critic born in Stockholm; her father’s family is Scottish. She was considered a gifted child. Her first few books were written in Swedish, but she switched over to English as her professional language. After having worked for some years as a secretary, a ballet teacher, and a fashion model, Roxman studied at Stockholm University, King’s College at London University, Lund University, and Gothenburg University, where she got a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.1996-2005 she headed the Centre of Classical Mythology at Lund University. She has had several collections of poetry published, as well as literary criticism. Her poems have also appeared in literary magazines world-wide. Some of these pieces have been translated into Arabic and Persian. Roxman has taken part in many poetry readings, notably at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006, 2009, and 2010. Her Anglophone poetry collections (see below) were displayed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (2006, 2009, 2010), the Beijing International Book Fair (2007), and the Book Expo, Los Angeles (2008).

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Books

Written in Swedish
Written in English

Contributions

Literary Magazines

Roxman has contributed poems and lyrical prose to more than 60 literary magazines world-wide. These include:

She has also written reviews which have appeared in magazines, including Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Dance Magazine, and Plays & Players.

Encyclopaedias

Websites

Poems of Roxman’s appear on her own website, as well as on the Greek Mythology Link (please see both links below).

Daily Newspapers

Susanna Roxman has contributed many review articles on literature and ballet to the arts pages of some of the national newspapers in Sweden. These include Dagens Nyheter, Arbetet (now folded), Sydsvenska Dagbladet, and Aftonbladet.

Radio Work

She has also written a large number of pieces on the arts for the National Radio, Sweden.

Editing Work

Roxman was on the editorial board of the literary magazine Understanding (published by Dionysia Press, Edinburgh) 1991-2003. She co-edited two multi-cultural anthologies of poetry and prose: Fjorton poeter fran Lund (with Guilem Rodrigues da Silva), Lunds Lilla Penklubb/Forfattarcentrum Syd, Lund 1982; Varlden i Lund (with Karin Lentz and Guilem Rodrigues da Silva), Lunds Lilla Penklubb, Lund 1985.

Listings in Works of Reference

Awards

References

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