Sophie Heawood is an award-winning freelance journalist based between London and Los Angeles. 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 and The NME. 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, Lady Sovereign, Kelis, Adele, Grace Jones, Patti Smith, Snoop Dogg, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beth Ditto, Jared Leto, Hugh Laurie, Juliette Lewis, Lionel Richie, Bat For Lashes, Snow Patrol, The Killers, Keane, MIA, and Belinda Carlisle. She has a particular interest in the post-Lily Allen generation of young women in pop.

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, and has recently begun talking about herself in the third person. Her pet hate is the phrase "pet hate".