Daisy Hildyard

Daisy Hildyard’s first novel, Hunters in the Snow, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2014 and a 5 Under 35 honorarium from the National Book Foundation. Her latest book, The Second Body, is an essay on the Anthropocene. She lives in North Yorkshire.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 167

You Are the Product

Daisy Hildyard

‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’

Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 151

The Kobold

Daisy Hildyard

‘In a plain material sense the condition of being alive is that of living inside this contradiction – being membrane-bound.’

Art & Photography | Issue 148

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Matthieu Gafsou & Daisy Hildyard

‘It’s a shadow-world: strangely familiar, all the same.’ Daisy Hildyard introduces Mattieu Gafsou’s photoessay on transhumanism.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 148

The one/many problem

Daisy Hildyard

‘Other creatures literally stop me breathing. There are so many of them, and only one of me.’ Daisy Hildyard writes about her research into the animal kingdom.