Sophie Cunningham has worked in the publishing industry for forty years, formerly as an editor and publisher. These days she’s a non-fiction writer, novelist and teacher of creative writing. She has had eleven books published. Her most recent novel is This Devastating Fever (2022) and she’s working on her fourth novel, The Whole Earth Catalogue. For Faber Writing Academy, she has taught the Writing a Novel course on and off since 2011, as well as the 8-week-long Writing Memoir program.