Sue Rainsford is a fiction and arts writer based in Dublin. Her practice is concerned with hybrid, lyric, and embodied texts, explicit fusions of critical and corporeal inquiry, as well as with questions of transcription and otherness.
Sue is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, as well as Bennington College, Vermont. In addition to a MacDowell Fellowship, Sue is also a recipient of the Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary Award (2013, 2018, 2019) and the VAI/DCC Art Writing Award (2016/2017).
Her début novel, Follow Me To Ground, which was originally published in Ireland by New Island Books, received the Kate O’Brien Award and was long-listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Award. In August 2019, it was published in the UK by Doubleday Books, and is forthcoming in the US with Scribner in 2020.
Sue’s second novel, Redder Days, came out with Doubleday in March 2021, and she was recently appointed writer-in-residence at Maynooth University.
