Zoe Gilbert is the author of two novels, Folk (Bloomsbury 2018), which was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and adapted for BBC Radio, and Mischief Acts (Bloomsbury 2022) which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and journals in the UK and internationally, and won prizes including the Costa Short Story Award. She is the co-editor with Lily Dunn of the recovery anthology, A Wild and Precious Life (Unbound, 2021), and is co-director of London Lit Lab, where she teaches and mentors creative writers. As well as fiction, she has written librettos for classical composers including Helen Grime and Huw Watkins, and writes and presents folklore and foraging segments for the popular nature podcast, As the Season Turns. She is a Senior Visiting Fellow in creative writing at the University of Suffolk, but she lives in Kent, where the landscape is inspiring her third novel.
