About Hilary Spiers
Hilary Spiers is a novelist, award-winning short story writer and playwright, who writes about ordinary women in sometimes extraordinary circumstances. She believes women's complex and fascinating lives deserve more scrutiny than they often get and is particularly interested in the lives of older women and historical figures.
Her play, Feeding Frenzy, was shortlisted for the Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize in 2022.
She is the author of Hester & Harriet and Hester & Harriet: Love, Lies and Linguine, published by Allen and Unwin, featuring two feisty sisters of a certain age. She continues to write fiction, both novels and short stories, but has recently been focusing largely on her playwriting.
She is scheduled to direct her play A Singular Deception at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2024 for
the Edinburgh Graduates Theatre Group (EGTG).
She lives in Edinburgh.