Her work has been supported by grants from the Royal Literary Fund, the Society of Authors, and Arts Council England. Her eighth book, Barefoot on the Wind (Walker Books, 2016) won the Hillingdon Book award. Zoë was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at York St. Shadows on the Moon (Walker Books 2011) is widely considered a classic of UK young adult fiction, winning the Great Britain Sasakawa prize, a place in the Lancashire Book of the Year awards, and an American Junior Library Guild selection. It went on to become a USBBY Outstanding International book, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase award, and was chosen for the 2009 International Reading Association booklist. Her first book, The Swan Kingdom (Walker Books, 2007), was written when she was just twenty-one. Zoë Marriott is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels for young adults, many of which draw strongly on world mythology and folklore.
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