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Sophie Morris is a journalist, writer and editor with twenty years’ experience writing about food, feminism and culture for national newspapers and magazines, mostly for The i Paper and The Independent, as well as bylines in The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, The Evening Standard and a number of consumer magazines.
She has written about food and food politics for many years and is passionate about preserving and promoting the acts of cooking and eating well to benefit all of us. Her newsletter FFS – Food and Fiction with Sophie Morris – is on Substack.
She spent her twenties as a feature and comment writer at The Independent, writing a weekly opinion page and reporting from many countries including Brazil, Tanzania, Iceland and Argentina, as well as creating the paper’s first blog on green and ethical issues, Ethics Girl. She later launched a number of digital publications and worked as an Associate Lecturer at London universities including London College of Communication (University of the Arts, London) and Goldsmiths.
She grew up in the North West of England with a view of both the Peak District and the trainline into Manchester, spent fifteen years in central London and now lives by the sea in east Kent with her husband and daughter.
She studied Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Spanish) at the University of Cambridge, studying at the Universitat de Barcelona during her year abroad, and has an MA in Journalism from Goldsmiths and an MSc in International Politics from SOAS.
Website: sophiemorris.co
Instagram: sophielouisemorris