curriculum vitae

Siouxzi Connor is a highly experienced and passionate writer, filmmaker, conceptualist, researcher and senior copywriter. She is currently working as a freelance book editor, video editor and has just published her first novel “Your Body of Water.” Her previous workplaces have included Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun, AKQA Berlin, Sydney and London, DDB, Geometry, and Jack Morton Sydney. She has published previous books with Repeater Books and the co-founder of The WØMB – an event series promoting the careers of women in the creative industries.

Education

• Gender and Cultural Studies Department, University of Sydney – PhD Candidate

• Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin – Fellowship & Affiliated Fellowship

• University of Technology, Sydney – Graduate Diploma (Media Arts, Writing & Film). Distinction

• Macquarie University, Sydney – Bachelor of Media (Visual Production & Writing). Distinction

Selected Experience

Course tutor; “On the Nature of Writing”: Teaching a 5-week creative writing course focused on nature writing for The Reader, Berlin. October- November 2025.

Freelance book editor; creative and copyediting for novelists and non-fiction book authors. Current.

Freelance video editor and creative direction; BONDYWORLD, sustainable fashion organisation; shooting and editing videos for online tutorials and social media. Sept-Oct, 2025

Forthcoming publication, Women* in Revolt (working title), a monograph on Florentina Holzinger’s latest three works in collaboration with Katia Wik. Projected publication date: 2026

Full-time writing and publication of novel, ‘Your Body of Water’. Repeater Books – 2024 – 2025

Writer, Copyeditor, Conceptualist & Researcher, AKQA; Berlin – Nov 2019 – Oct 2023. Translating future-forward technologies and ideas into real-world solutions. Further detailed experience on LinkedIn.

Book publication, ‘REPEATER BOOK OF THE OCCULT’, Published by Repeater Books, distributed by Penguin Random House – 2021

Exhibition Commission, Short Fiction, ‘Tunnel of Fun’, Bethanien/ Kunstraum Kreuzberg, ‘Aliens are temporary’, curated by Sonia Fernández Pan, Sylvia Sadzinski, Anaïs Senli – 2021

Artist Residency, Roni Horn’s ‘Library of Water’, Iceland, 2020

Co-founder, Editor and Communications Director, The WØMB; Berlin – 2017 – 2019. Lecturer, workshop leader, panelist, event coordinator and co-programmer with feminist events series and community space for the creative industries.

Sessional Teacher, Western Sydney University; Sydney – July 2019 – Dec 2019. Teaching Communications and Advertising, in the Department of Humanities and Communication Arts; online seminars in Communications.

Creative director and freelance writer, Uferlos Studios; Berlin – 2016 – 2018. Creative direction, VJing, copywriting, exhibitions and readings with creative studio, working on projects across the artistic, music, and nightlife worlds.

Book publication, ‘Little Houses, Big Forests (desire is no light thing)’. Published by Repeater Books / Distributed by Penguin Random House; 2017

Campaigns and Communications Manager, Little Sun (Studio Olafur Eliasson), Berlin – May 2015 – June 2017

Freelance writer; Runway Magazine, The Offing Magazine (LA Review of Books), East Coast Ink, Drain Magazine, Zona Dynamic (Berlin), Should I have stayed home and thought of here? Publishing fiction, essays, critiques for the above publications and many others.