Contact

via the main page: www.susannaforrest.com/contact.

Books and Current Projects

If Wishes Were Horses, a Memoir of Equine Obsession (Atlantic Books, 2012)

The Age of the Horse (Atlantic Books, UK, 2016; Grove Atlantic, US, 2017; Hara Shobo, Japan, 2017).

Amazons of Paris – a Paris Review Daily essay series branching into a book.

Siberia Project.

Prizes, Grants and Fellowships

Society of Authors Author’s Foundation Grant (2012)
Sophie Coe Prize for an essay on food history (2016)
Hawthornden Fellow (2017)
Finalist, Nowhere's Fall travel writing contest (2017)
John Heygate Award for travel writing from Society of Authors (2018)
Writer in Residence, Gladstone’s Library (2019)

Book Chapters

"Inventing the Wild Horse: the Manmade History of the Takhi and Tarpan 1828-2018" in Horse Breeds and Human Society: Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse, edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld (Routledge, 2020). (The offcut first part of the story can be found on Medium and my blog).

“‘Horsemeat is Certainly Delicious’: Anxiety, Xenophobia and Rationalism at a Nineteenth-Century American Hippophagic Banquet” in Equine Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity, 1700–Present, edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld (University of Chicago Press, 2019).

"The New Equestrian Economy in China" in Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Arenas, edited by Miriam Adelman and Kirrilly Thompson (Springer, 2018).

Member of the Equine Research Network.

Media appearances and speaking engagements

On horse history: BBC World Service’s The Why Factor, 26 November 2018; BBC Radio 4's Horse History series, 12–16 March 2018; BBC World Service's The Food Chain, 29 October 2017; ABC Saturday Extra, 16 September 2017; on horses, PTSD and Anxiety: BBC World Service's The Forum, 22 August 2016; on pony books: BBC Radio 4 Pony Tales, September 2016; on women-only remount depots in World War One, The Equine Army, BBC1 West (2 June 2014) and BBC4 (29 September 2014); on sidesaddle, Countryfile, BBC1 (10 June 2012).

European Circus History conference, London, UK, February 2025; Circus Arts without Borders, Paris, France, February 2025; International Sidesaddle Organization, February 2025; Writing about Animals, Gladstone’s Library, February 2019; Wigtown Book Festival, UK, September 2017; Guildford Literary Festival, October 2016; Horse Tales: Writing the Equine in Children's Literature at Homerton College, Cambridge University, UK, May 2016; Galloping History Symposium at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, April 2014; and 2012 Daily Telegraph Way with Words Literary Festival, Dartington Hall.