Sophie Mackintosh was born in South Wales in 1988, and is currently based in London. Her fiction and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Granta Magazine, The White Review and TANK Magazine, amongst others. Her short story ‘Grace’ is 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.
Transcription (2026) Ben Lerner "Transcription is both dizzyingly accomplished and disarmingly tender-an acutely elegant and forensic meditation on the disorientation of what it means to be alive now."
Almost Life (2026) Kiran Millwood Hargrave "Almost Life is captivating and immersive, a soaring ode to both love's possibilities and its pain. Richly rendered and deeply felt, Laure and Erica will stay with me for a long time."
The Last Sane Woman (2024) Hannah Regel "The Last Sane Woman is a brilliant, slyly funny, and acutely observed meditation on the process both of the making of objects and of one's own life. Regel's prose is gorgeous and deftly rendered on every page."
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (2024) Keiran Goddard "A virtuosic and devastating exploration of the relationships that bind us, and the places that always call us back. Tender and fierce in turn, Goddard writes about class and friendship with the deftest of touches."
Daughter (2023) Claudia Dey "I will go wherever Claudia Dey takes me with her prose--always elegant, yet brimming with color and sharpness, it never fails to breathe new life. I loved Daughter in all its gorgeous power."
Ripe (2023) Sarah Rose Etter "Ripe is a triumph - blade-sharp and unflinching. It walks a darkly gorgeous tightrope between the bitter and beautiful with skill that takes your breath away."
Owlish (2023) Dorothy Tse "Beguilingly eerie, richly textured, the pages of Owlish are drenched in strange beauty and menace. Like all the best fairy tales, it reveals the dark truths that we would rather not look at directly, and does so with a surreal and singular clarity."
there are more things (2022) Yara Rodrigues Fowler "there are more things is a vivid and expansive novel of sisterhood, love and connection. Reading it is a true experience of joy, and of hope."
Strangers I Know (2022) Claudia Durastanti "Claudia Durastanti's writing is lyrical and sharp, underpinned with a searching gaze that turns the everyday into something darkly beautiful. Every page feels totally, absorbingly, alive."
Assembly (2021) Natasha Brown "Assembly is an astonishing work. Formally innovative, as beautiful as it is coolly devastating, urgent and utterly precise on what it means to be alive now."
little scratch (2020) Rebecca Watson "I was immediately enveloped in the staccato of little scratch, which spun between wry, funny and heartbreaking. It captures beautifully a rhythm not just of trauma, but also of the small, defiant, everyday happinesses that push through and against it."
Pine (2020) Francine Toon "From the first page PINE casts a sense of slowly-rising unease that is completely compelling. It's both eerie and thrilling at once, and had me under its spell until the end."
Starling Days (2019) Rowan Hisayo Buchanan "A quiet triumph—tenderly and disarmingly exploring the responsibility of love, loneliness, what it is to feel lost."
The Doll Factory (2019) Elizabeth Macneal "A stunning novel that twines together power, art, and obsession. At every turn expectations are confounded - it’s a historical novel and yet feels incredibly relevant and timely. I loved its warmth, it’s wry humour, and the way each small thread leads into an unbearably tense and chilling denouement that had me totally gripped."
He Is Mine and I Have No Other (2018) Rebecca O'Connor "My heart broke a little bit for Lani and Leon by the end. He Is Mine and I Have No Other vividly calls up the atmosphere of small-town life, I could positively feel the damp mistiness of it on my skin. Eerie, tender and wonderful."
(b.1988)
