Susan Swan is the Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada for the 2007-2008 year.
Fiction by Susan Swan has been published in sixteen countries, including Canada, Spain, the U.S., Poland, Germany, the U.K. Australia, Italy and Holland. One of her novels, The Wives of Bath, was made into a feature film Lost and Delirious which has shown in 31 countries after its debut at Sundance 2001 and the Berlin Film Festival. Swan's latest novel, What Casanova Told Me, was nominated for Canada's2004 Regional Commonwealth Prize andhas been widely translated.
Swan is also an associate professor of Humanities at York University and in 2000 she was Millennial Wisdom Scholar at York's Robarts Centre. She has given talks at Stratford's Celebrated Writers' Series, the University of Athens, Greece, the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and the Adelaide Writers' Festival in Australia.