Susanna Roxman

Susanna Roxman
Susanna Roxman in London
Born	Pia Susanna Ellinor Roxman , Sweden
Occupation	Poet, critic
Education	, King's College London, Lund University, Gothenburg University
Website
www.roxman.info

Susanna Roxman (born Pia Susanna Ellinor Roxman) is an Anglophone writer, poet and critic born in ; 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 , King’s College at London University, Lund University, and Gothenburg University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. From 1996 to 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 (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013).

Roxman's works include:

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.

Poems of Roxman’s appear on her own website, as well as on the Greek Mythology Link.

Roxman´s English-language poetry collections have been displayed at book fairs world-wide, including:

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.

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

She co-edited two multi-cultural anthologies of poetry and prose: