Zoe Pilger was born in 1984. She lives in London. She is writing a quartet of novels, which is supported by The Society of Authors and Arts Council England.

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From 2016-2018, she lived in, and travelled through, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Middle East, and India.

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Influences, Frieze. 2017. 

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Zoe Pilger's first novel Eat My Heart Out was published by Serpent's Tail in 2014. It won a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award at the 2015 Society of Authors in the UK. It was shortlisted for a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the US. 

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Zoe Pilger was previously the art critic for The Independent. She won the 2011 Frieze Writers Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Observer / Anthony Burgess Prize for arts journalism. She has written widely on feminism and art. 

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Zoe Pilger has a BA in Social and Political Science from Cambridge University, an MA in Comparative Literary Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is working on a PhD monograph of the artist Sophie Calle at Goldsmiths.

 

Zoe Pilger is a tarot reader. 

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