[3] The region had a major effect on her writing which is "grounded in its history and geology, the limestone and iron ore and coal and fireclay of a landscape that spawned the industrial revolution".
[4] From a working class family, she left school without qualifications, and stacked supermarket shelves and washed up in hotel kitchens while writing her first books.
[5] She has written over 60 books, and also worked as a Royal Literary Fund fellow attached to De Montford University.
[6] Many of Susan Price's works are fantasy, from science fiction to ghost stories; some are historical novels; others are about animals or everyday life.
She won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising The Ghost Drum as the year's best children's book by a British subject;[1] reissued in 2024 it was described as a "rediscovered gem".