Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh was born in South Wales, and is currently based in London. Her fiction, essays and poetry have been published by Granta, The White Review, The New York Times and The Stinging Fly, among others. Her short story ‘Grace’ was the winner of the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize, and her story ‘The Running Ones’ won the Virago/Stylist Short Story competition in 2016.
Sophie’s debut novel The Water Cure was published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK in Spring 2018 and by Doubleday in the US in early 2019, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Her second novel Blue Ticket was published in Summer 2020, and her third novel Cursed Bread, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize, in Spring 2023. She was included on the 2023 Granta Best Of Young British Novelists list.
‘Be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes’ Deborah Levy
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