Sue Reed

Sue Reed lives in rural Northumberland where a love of the wild inspires her writing. 

Born in Worthing, Sussex, Sue has migrated slowly north and has worn a variety of hats in her professional life. 

Once a teacher of pupils with severe learning difficulties, Sue wrote sensory dramas and curricula that would bring the world alive to those for whom exploration was difficult. She then brought history to life as a museum guide at a lead mining museum, in Upper Weardale. For seven years Sue ran her own business upcycling waste wool knitwear as The Woolly Pedlar, and then in 2019 went to Newcastle University to do the Creative Writing MA. 

Her first novel, The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn was published in 2023 by The Book Guild. 

She also writes freelance for publications and non-fiction essays on Substack as RIPE - unapologetic midlifing, post-trauma badassery, gardening as witchcraft, vanlife joyrides and neurospicy chaos.