Susan Maxwell is an independent author and scholar who has had short stories and poetry published in magazines and anthologies. In 2014 Little Island Books published the novel 'Good Red Herring' for the Young Adult market. It received critical acclaim and was included in the Irish Times Best books of 2014 for children and young adults; as with much of Maxwell's work, the book does not fit entirely comfortably into generic or age-related categories. Further, independently published, books followed this debut—'A Wild Goose Hunt', a sequel to Good Red Herring, and 'And the Wildness', set in the same fictional 'Hibernia Altera' universe; the short story collection 'Fluctuation in Disorder'; and the novel 'Hollowmen', both of the latter slipstream works aimed at an adult rather than a universal readership. Apart from writing fiction, Maxwell has served on fiction and non-fiction juries for the British Fantasy Awards; has a PhD in Archival Science and writes on themes related to archives and fiction; and reviews regularly for 'Inis', the magazine of Children’s Books Ireland. Literary influences come mostly from speculative and modernist fiction, the author being particularly fond of Flann O'Brien, Calvino, Beckett, and Woolf. When not writing, or painting, or being an archivist, the author can be found in the vegetable patch, listening to music, reading books, watching old detective series, or catching up on sleep.www.biblioref.comRead more about this authorRead less about this author