Dr Susan Greenberg began working life as a feature writer, foreign correspondent, and editor for newspapers and magazines. She went on to take roles as managing editor and ‘content advisor’ for non-media organisations. This included ghostwriting and mentoring, training non-media staff in editorial skills, and advising on standards, content types, and workflows.
Bringing this expertise to the Creative Writing programme at the University of Roehampton, Greenberg designed and taught courses on nonfiction genres such as life writing, travel writing, reportage, and the lyric essay – work that is driven by passion about the potential of narrative nonfiction as a storytelling genre and a form of discovery, along with a deep appreciation of the challenges that it brings. She ran classes on interviewing as a research method, taught business skills such as proposal writing, and mentored students on long-form projects, up to and including doctoral supervision and external examining.
Alongside this, Greenberg was a founder and Publisher of the in-house imprint Fincham Press, and launched an MA in Publishing, which included training in all aspects of editing.
A PhD at UCL’s Department of Information Studies resulted in two books and a strand within the CUP Elements series Publishing and Book Culture – the Backlist page has details on this and other work.
As a scholar, Greenberg has given keynote speeches on editing and on narrative nonfiction: she is cited in the Oxford Dictionary of Journalism as the source for the concept ‘Slow Journalism’, and an annual research prize on literary journalism is presented in her name by the IALJS.
For a LinkedIn profile see here.