Zoe Pilger

The daughter of journalists John Pilger and Yvonne Roberts,^[2] Zoe Pilger studied social and political science at Cambridge University.^[3] She also gained an MA in Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London.^[1]

Pilger was art critic of The Independent, a British newspaper, from January 2012 to 2016.^[4][5] Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out, published by Serpent's Tail in 2014, has been described as a post-feminist satire about modern romance.^[6] It developed from an intensive writing period when the author was 23 and lived in an unfamiliar seaside town for six-months.^[7]

She is currently researching her PhD on romantic love and sadomasochism in the work of female artists at Goldsmiths.^[8] Pilger lives in London.^[1]

• 2011 - Frieze Writer's Prize^[4]
• 2014 - Shortlisted for the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for journalism in art.^[5]
• 2015 - Somerset Maugham Award for Eat My Heart Out^[9]
• 2015 - Betty Trask Award for Eat My Heart Out^[9]
• 2016 - Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature for Eat My Heart Out^[10]