Zoe Venditozzi is a writer and podcaster living and working in Scotland. Born in Lancashire, England, she was raised in a small village in North East Fife and studied at the University of Dundee and the University of Glasgow. She won the Not the Booker Prize awarded by The Guardian newspaper in 2013 for her first novel Anywhere's Better Than Here. She led a Witches of Scotland campaign with Claire Mitchell KC, teaches creative writing workshops and is a teacher of Support for Learning.