Curriculum Vitae of Published Works:

What Casanova Told Me

A dazzlingly imagined novel that embraces two centuries, two women, a long-lost Journal and the mystery behind the legendary Casanova’s last great love.

Canada – Knopf Canada, 2004 (paperback 2005)
US - Bloomsbury US, 2005 (paperback 2006)
Spain - Losada Editorial, 2006.
Russia - Amphora, 2007
Portugal – Estampa, 2007
Serbia – Laguna, 2008
Foreign distribution in Mexico, Chile and Argentina.

A five minute BookShort was produced in 2004 and distributed
to TV, websites and viewed in Canadian bookstores. A two minute
version was produced for American outlets.

The Wives of Bath

A darkly humorous, gothic story involving a murder in a girls’ boarding school in the 1960’s.

Canada and U.S. – Knopf, 1993 (Canadian paperback Random House, 1994)
UK - Granta Books, 1993 (UK paperback Penguin, 1994)
Germany - Piper, 1996
Holland - Arena, 1995

* Listed in U.S. Readers’ Guide by McFarland Publishers as one of best novels of the nineties, 2000.

Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax With

A comical collection examining women’s relationships with the opposite sex.

Toronto, Canada – Somerville House Publishing, 1996

Short story collection focusing on interim relationships in both real
and virtual realities.
*(Excerpted in Granta and Ms. Magazine, l996.)

The Last of the Golden Girls

Set in the long, hot summers of the 1950s, The Last of the Golden Girls paints a haunting portrait of female friendship among the rich in English Canada.

Toronto, Canada - Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1989
Canada – Random House Canada paperback, 1991
Canada - Key Porter reprint, 2001
New York, USA – Arcade, Little Brown, 1991

The Biggest Modern Woman of the World

In this exhilarating and profound novel, Anna Swan, the real-life 7’6”, 413-pound Nova Scotian Giantess renders her own autobiographical account.

Toronto, Canada – Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1983
London, UK - Pandora Press, 1988
New York, USA – Ecco Press, 1986
Key Porter reprint, Canada, 2001

New Edition with new cover, Key Porter, 2007

Momz Radio

Humorous, ribald, powerful and filled with wisdom, anecdotes and shared affirmations, this collection of voices celebrates the quiet heroism of mothers.

in Anthology on Motherhood,  Susan Swan and Sarah Sheard (eds.)

Toronto, Canada – Coach House Press, 1991; pp. 207‐221.

Unfit for Paradise

Susan Swan has based these stories on true accounts of North Americans attempting to deal with their privileged role when on vacation in third-world countries.

Toronto, Canada – Dingle Editions, 1982; pp. 67

A short story collection on northerners in the tropics.
A performance based on the stories was staged in Toronto and Vancouver in 1983