Sophie Mackintosh

Sophie Mackintosh is the author of novels The Water Cure (2018), Blue Ticket (2020), and Cursed Bread (forthcoming 2023). The Water Cure was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Dazed, Guardian, and The Stinging Fly, amongst others. In 2020 she was picked as ‘a face set to define the decade ahead’ by Vogue UK, alongside writers Jia Tolentino and Oyinkan Braithwaite. 

She has read from her work widely and appeared on panels for organisations including Edinburgh International Book Festival, The BBC, National Portrait Gallery, Faber Academy, The British Academy, and Frieze. She has also taught fiction for organisations such as Arvon, The University of Warwick, and Guardian Masterclasses. 

She is particularly interested in creating work that straddles artistic disciplines, and work inspired by visual mediums. Previous commissions have included fictional texts as responses to artists and designers for inclusion in exhibitions, catalogues and publications. She has written on art for both magazines and brands, as well as facilitating workshops on interdisciplinary writing and thought at London College of Fashion and London School of Architecture.

She has been writer in residence at the Paris Writer’s Residency, Prague City of Literature, and Gladstone’s Library. She currently lives and works in London.