I am a writer and illustrator currently working on a graphic biography of Virginia Woolf which will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2026 in the UK, by Pantheon in the US, Grasset in France, Lumen in Spain, Rowolht in Germany, Companhia das Letras in Brazil, and Gingko in China. In 2022, I received the Lady Antonia Fraser Grant for a biography of a woman.
I am an LAHP funded PhD candidate in Creative Writing at King's College London. Prior to an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts, I studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. While at Camberwell, I founded Whip zine, a magazine of political cartoons and satirical writing by women. Whip was featured in Vogue, It's Nice That, I News, the BBC, and Riposte magazine, amongst others. My illustration clients include the BBC and the FT Weekend Magazine.
I have taught seminar classes on Creative Non-Fiction at King's and on Virginia Woolf at Wells College, New York. I regularly teach courses on Writing the City: London, Literature and Place: , and Post-War British Popular Culture at CEA CAPA Institute. I have spoken at the 2022 International Virginia Woolf Conference and at a panel event at the Tate Modern on the theme of 'Must Satire Offend'. In 2022, my work was featured in Issue 99 of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. I have written reviews for the TLS, amongst other publications. In 2018, I was included in The Inking Woman: 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain, published by Myriad Editions. I was a judge for the Young Cartoonist of the Year Award 2022.
I am based in South-East London and grew up in Stockport.
Photographer: Sophie Davidson
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