Zoe Gilbert

Zoe Gilbert is a fiction writer based on the coast of Kent, UK. She is the author of two novels: Folk (Bloomsbury, 2018), which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and adapted for BBC Radio; and Mischief Acts (Bloomsbury, 2022), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. She is also the co-editor with Lily Dunn of the recovery anthology, A Wild and Precious Life (Unbound, 2021). Her short stories have been published in anthologies and journals around the world, and have won prizes including the Costa Short Story Award 2014. She teaches creative writing at London Lit Lab and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Suffolk English department. Her fiction is inspired by folklore, myth, nature, local landscapes and the history of ideas. She wrote the libretto for Folk the song cycle, composed by Helen Grime, and she is currently working on her third novel.