Sue was awarded a New Zealand Society of Authors mentorship in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Lillian Ida Smith award. After being published widely in newspapers, journals and anthologies (including Best NZ Poems 2004) her first book of poetry, Hourglass, was published in 2005.
Sue won both the poetry and fiction prizes at the Aoraki Arts Festival in 2006, and the Inverawe Poetry Competition in 2007. In 2008 she became the Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University.
Also by Sue:
* Cloudcatcher