Zoe Venditozzi

Zoe Venditozzi is a novelist and writer living and working in Scotland. Zoe was born in Lancashire and grew up in a small village in North East Fife and studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee. She won the Guardian’s “Not the Booker” prize in 2013 with her first novel Anywhere’s Better Than Here. She leads the Witches of Scotland campaign with Claire Mitchell KC, and in 2022, Claire and Zoe were made Doctors of Laws by the University of Dundee in recognition of their work.

Through their tireless campaigning, regular public appearances, and highly entertaining podcast of the same name, this pair of ‘quarrelsome dames’ are currently working to build a lasting memorial to the murdered women, and campaign to draw attention to the continued persecution of women as witches around the world today.

How To Kill A Witch was published by Monoray in the UK in May 2025.