Big Girls Don’t Cry – Q&A with Beacon Press
Susan Swan has never fit inside the boxes that other people have made for her—the daughter box, the wife box, the mother box, the femininity box. Instead, throughout her richly lived, independent decades, she has carved her own path and lived with the consequences. In her revealing and revelatory memoir, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Swan shares the …
Posted on June 6, 2025 by Juliann Garisto
Big Girls Don’t Cry – Q&A with Beacon Press
Susan Swan has never fit inside the boxes that other people have made for her—the daughter box, the wife box, the mother box, the femininity box. Instead, throughout her richly lived, independent decades, she has carved her own path and lived with the consequences. In her revealing and revelatory memoir, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Swan shares the …
Posted on June 6, 2025 by Juliann Garisto
Appointment to the Order of Canada
Thanks to the Governor General of Canada and the Carol Shields Prize for celebrating me today. Congratulations to my fellow recipients. Toronto, ON — Susan Swan, award-winning author, journalist and professor, has been appointed as Member of the Order of Canada by Governor General Mary Simon. Established in 1967, the Order of Canada is one …
Posted on June 30, 2023 by Juliann Garisto

Why don’t more Canadians know about Constance Beresford-Howe?
When you think of the giants in Canadian literature, chances are you think of writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro or Margaret Atwood. Few readers these days remember Constance Beresford-Howe, who wrote ground-breaking novels about the struggle of women to be autonomous. You may not know about her because she was shy. Or because, …
Posted on December 13, 2019 by sswan