Scarlett Thomas (born 5 July[2] 1972 in Hammersmith) is an English author who writes contemporary postmodern fiction.

Recently, Thomas started writing children's fiction, publishing Dragon's Green in 2017, the first in the Worldquake series.

She has also served as a member of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (2008) jury, along with Director Iain Softley and presided over by actor Danny Huston[12] Thomas has stated previously was working on a book called 41-0[13] about her year of returning to tennis - she had stopped playing when she was 14 but took it up again in 2013 to see "how high [she] could get in the rankings for [her] age."

She channelled her athletic ability into running and walking, and tracked it via numerous apps, leading to a realisation she had been acting obsessively about her fitness, which she chronicled in The Guardian in 2015[14] and was followed by, in her words, a breakdown.

[17] In 2002 she won Best New Writer in the Elle Style Awards, and also featured as an author in New Puritans, a project led by the novelists Matt Thorne and Nicholas Blincoe consisting of both a manifesto and an anthology of short stories.