Suse Schröder

Born in Königs Wusterhausen, she works as an author, literary mediator, and in the social sector. She studied cultural studies, gender studies, poetry education, and literary writing.
She has co-founded several self-organized writing groups as well as the “Junge Literaturinstitut Leipzig” (Leipzig Young Literature Institute), organized readings, published poems, prose, and essays in magazines and anthologies, set audio and spoken word pieces to music, and contributed to a play about discrimination in Brandenburg.
Since 2014, she has been a member of the Segeberger Kreis and has given creative and literary courses and open workshops for people with mental illness, physical disabilities, girls and young women in open youth work, children and young people in schools, and university students, among others.
In 2015, she was writer-in-residence in Hamburg-Bergedorf, nominated for the Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize in 2020, and longlisted for the German Short Story Competition in 2023.
In 2023, she co-edited NOEL_Dr_ueber: neuste oesterreichische Literatur und die Tippgemeinschaft (NOEL_Dr_ueber: the latest Austrian literature and the betting pool).
She is currently writing her debut novel, “Dann kommen wir” (Then We Come).