Suzanne Wrack

About

Suzanne is a women’s football writer for the Guardian. She previously worked on the sports desk as a layout sub editor. She has worked as a Senior Broadcast Journalist for BBC Sport, a digital designer for The Sunday Times, and page artist for Trinity Mirror's The New Day. Suzanne is passionate about sport and enjoys exploring the politics of sport. She has an interest in fan-owned football clubs and issues around discrimination in sport.Suzanne is an accredited football reporter, member of the SJA, on the national committee of the Football Writer's Association, a member of Women in Football and also won a place on the first ever Women in Journalism mentoring scheme in 2016.She was highly commended in the Media Initiative of the Year category at the 2018 Women’s Sport Trust ‘Be A Game Changer’ awards, shortlisted for the Football Supporters Association writer of the year in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, shortlisted for sports journalist of the year at the British Press Awards in 2019 and 2022 and was shortlisted for sports journalist of the year at the London Press Club awards in 2023 and shortlisted for football journalist of the year at Sports Journalist Association award in 2019. She was the winner of the ‘writing - best colour’ category at the AIPS awards in 2019. Suzanne won the inaugural Women’s Sport Journalist award at the Sports Journalist Association awards in 2024 and picked up the award again in 2025. She is on the expert panel which helps determine the Women’s Super League player of the month and is on the panel for the Women’s Super League Hall of Fame. Suzanne has a chapter included in ‘Football, She Wrote’, an anthology of women’s football writers published in September 2021. Her first book, a social and political history of women’s football, ‘A Woman’s Game - The rise, fall and rise again of women’s football’ was published in June 2022 and was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2023 and won the inaugural Vikki Orvice Award for New Women's Sports Writing at the Sports Book Awards 2023. Suzanne co-wrote England captain Leah Williamson's non-fiction children's book 'You Have the Power', which was published in March 2023 and shortlist for Children's Book of the Year at the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards. A written and illustrated guide to 50 great sportswomen titled ‘Strong Women’ was published in October 2023. Suzanne was the ghost writer of Khalida Popal's book 'My Beautiful Sisters' which was published in 2024 and shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2024.