Ms Rosie Boycott

Career: journalist and author; fndr: Spare Rib magazine 1972, Virago Press 1973; ed Osrati (Kuwaiti women's magazine) 1976-79, freelance contrib to various nat newspapers, full-time appts at Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Harpers & Queen, ed British Esquire 1992-96; ed: Independent on Sunday 1996-98, The Independent 1998, The Daily Express 1998-2001; currently chm London Food Bd and food advsr to Mayor of London; contrib to progs on TV and radio and to Daily Mail and The Observer, regular guest Newsnight Review; memb NESTA Lab; tstee: Wye Literary Festival, Hay Colombia

Books and Publications: Loka: The Buddhist Journal of Naropa (ed, 1975), Batty, Bloomers and Boycott (1981), A Nice Girl Like Me (autobiography, 1983), All For Love (novel, 1985), Spotted Pigs and Green Tomatoes: A Year in the life of a small-holding (autobiography, 2007)