Maria Fusco

I am a Belfast-born writer based in London. My first collection of short stories The Mechanical Copula is published by Sternberg Press, and is also published in Frenc as COPULATION MÉCANIQUE by éditions è®e in Paris.

I am Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and write fiction, critical and theoretical texts and edit publications, and contribute to a broad range of international magazines, books and catalogues. I am founder/editor of The Happy Hypocrite a semi-annual journal for and about experimental art writing.

In 2009-10, I was the inaugural Writer in Residence at Whitechapel Gallery in London, and in 2008-9, the Critic in Residence at The Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, and have recently been awarded as a Jerwood Creative Catalyst.

I'm currently writing Sailor, a novel about a monkey and a Browning Hi-Power pistol. And have written the screenplay for GONDA, a film by film-maker Ursula Mayer based around Ayn Rand's 1934 play Ideal, which will go into production later this year and is funded by Film London.

This website is a wee selection of some of the things I've been up to recently, for a longer list you can download my CV.