Suzannah Evans

Suzannah Evans is a poet whose work combines climate anxiety and eco-poetry with dark humour and irreverence. Her first book, Near Future (Nine Arches Press, 2018), has been described as ‘doom-pop poetry with an apocalyptic edge’. Suzannah has been a Hawthornden fellow and a Gladstone Library writer in residence, and has won two Northern Writers’ awards, one in 2013, and one in 2021 for her second collection, Space Baby. Her first publication, in 2012, was a winner in that year’s Poetry Business pamphlet competition, judged by Carol Ann Duffy. 

Suzannah’s poems have featured in a wide range of publications including Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation and The North. Her poem ‘Helpline’ was selected as Poem of the Week in the Guardian. She has performed poetry as part of festivals and live events, including at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and Push The Boat Out. In 2020 she resurrected the Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman as part of the reading series Dead [Women] Poets Society. Her most recent work is Green (Bad Betty Press, 2023), a chapbook that deals with ecological angst through the persona of a disillusioned green man, a folkloric immortal figure jaded by the beings he shares his space with. 

Suzannah lives in Sheffield. She worked for several years for independent publisher The Poetry Business as editor for their New Poets list. She has taught creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University, for the Open College of Arts, and for Warwick Writing Programme. She is one of the co-directors of Sheffield’s Sheaf Poetry Festival.