Sophie Heawood is an award-winning freelance journalist based between London and Los Angeles (but mainly LA). She writes about pop music, pop culture and city life, and interviews the famous for newspapers and magazines including The Times, Guardian, Independent on Sunday, New Statesman, Time Out, The Word, NME, Grazia and Foam. She also does TV and radio. Please write to sophieheawood @ gmail.com with all offers of hard, crisp cash.

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Among others, Sophie has interviewed Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Cheryl Cole, The xx, Clint Eastwood, Hugh Laurie, Elisabeth Moss (Peggy in Mad Men!), Snoop Dogg, Akon, Lionel Richie, John Mayer, Joanna Newsom, Grace Jones, Patti Smith, Alice Dellal, Georgia Jagger, The Killers and M.I.A. She has a particular interest in the post-Lily Allen generation of young women in pop and would rather not engage in moody staring matches with any more New York guitar bands, ta.

The Times sent Sophie to Israel to interview Palestinian protest rappers, and to fly round Brazil with Iron Maiden on their private jet to witness the cult of heavy metal in Latin America. She conducted ‘Girls Aloud - The Politics Interview’ for left-wing magazine the New Statesman and helped Amy Winehouse hide her bandmate's Ferrero Rochers underneath the sofa, though Sophie is still not sure why they discussed making a fitness video together.

Sophie grew up in Yorkshire, where it is cold, but she has also lived in Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Barcelona, where it is not. She speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese and French, loves karaoke and politics, is a secret computer geek, obsesses about buying houses, and has recently begun talking about herself in the third person. Her pet hate is the phrase "pet hate".