Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, novelist and poet.
Twice winner of the London Writers competition she was the Poetry Society's first-ever Public Art Poet and created a number of site-specific poems as part of a visual arts project in Birmingham's jewellery quarter. She was also commissioned by the Arts Council and the BFI to create London's biggest art poem that leads from Waterloo to the IMAX and was writer-in-residence at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill during ArchiTEXT week.
Her first collection, Everything Begins with the Skin, was published by Enitharmon in 1994 and a number of her poems appeared in Oxford Poets 2000 published by Carcanet. Her latest collection Ghost Station was published by Salt Publishing in 2004.
Depth of Field, her first novel, was published in 2000. John Berger called it a "remarkable first novel."
Sue Hubbard is a regular contributor to The Independent and The New Statesman where she writes on contemporary art. See her New Statesman articles ...
In 2006 she was awarded a major Arts Council Literary Award.
Read about Rothko's Red and Other Stories, Sue Hubbard's latest collection of short stories. Read more...
Sue Hubbard's new book Adventures in Art, a collection of her essays, is published on 19th May 2010.
Sue Hubbard and Donald Teskey's new book, The Idea of Islands, will be published in 2010.
Read a Review of Sue Hubbard's
poetry, extracted from the MA dissertation: 'Towards a postmodern British-Jewish
identity: contemporary Jewish women’s poetry in British culture' with
acknowledgements to Lucy Gaughan.