Susan Steggall

Susan Steggall is a writer and an art historian with a PhD in Creative Writing allied to a Master's and a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and Theory. Publications include: a memoir of a decade in France, Alpine Beach: a Family Adventure (1999); three novels, Forget Me Not (2006), It Happened Tomorrow (2013) and ‘Tis the Doing Not the Deed (2019), The Heritage You Leave Behind (2021) and To Carve Identity (2024), plus art-related articles, exhibition and book reviews, and book chapters. She has edited anthologies for the Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. and was editor of the ISAA Review (the journal of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc) from 2010 to 2015. She taught courses in Approaches to Australian Art, Writing Art and Design, Audiences for Art at the University of NSW. Her biography of art historian Joan Kerr, A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr, Art and Architectural Historian, was a winner in the Non-Fiction section of the 2013 Society of Women Writers NSW Inc.'s Biennial Book Awards.