Susan Wicks was born and grew up in Kent and studied French Literature at the Universities of Hull and Sussex. Her first three collections were published by Faber. Singing Underwater won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize; Open Diagnosis was one of the Poetry Society's New Generation Poets titles; and The Clever Daughter was a Poetry Book Society Choice and short-listed for both T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. She has also published two novels and a short memoir, Driving My Father. She has lived in France, Ireland and the U.S. and held writing residencies in North America and Europe. She currently directs the rapidly growing Writing Programme at the University of Kent, and lives in Tunbridge Wells.

About Night Toad:

"She has written powerfully on the body, childhood, domestic relationships, sex, illness and death, in a visionary style that combines silkily woven word-textures with oddly astringent transitions between thought and image."
—Ruth Padel, Indepent on Sunday

"A fine poet, with an eye for detail and a gift for conveying the earthliness of everyday experience."
—Jo Shapcott, Independent on Sunday

"Wonderful poems, so delicate and tough I can only admire and enjoy them."
—Dorothy Nimmo, PBS Bulletin