Susan McKay is an award winning jurnalist, a well known broadcaster and the author of several acclaimed books. She specializes in Irish and Northern Irish politics, social issues and the arts. Currently a freelance writer and commentator, she has also worked in the community and voluntary sector, and is well known as a chairperson, keynote speaker and panelist at conferences and seminars.
She has written for the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the Guardian, the Times, the London Review of Books, the New Statesman, the Washington Post, the Irish News and in many other publications. She contributes frequently to television and radio debates on the BBC and RTE. Her work has been widely anthologized, including in the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing and the 2013 Penguin collection, “Great Irish Reportage”.