Zoe Ann Fairbairns (born 1948) is a British feminist writer who has authored novels, short stories, radio plays and political pamphlets.
Fairbairns was the poetry editor for Spare Rib, in the same decade working as part of a collective of women writers to produce Tales I Tell My Mother.
Fairbairns has worked as a freelance journalist and a creative writing tutor; she has also held appointments as Writer in Residence at Bromley Schools (1981–83 and 1985–89), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia (1983), Sunderland Polytechnic (1983–85) and Surrey County Council (1989).
Down (1969), has a first-person male narrator; it was followed by Benefits, a dystopia imagining life in Britain in the future, with a political party in power that has undone the work of feminism and returned women to the home.
She has written pamphlets for CND, Shelter, and the feminist publishers Raw Nerve; a radio play (The Belgian Nurse), introductions to novels, interviews with authors including Fay Weldon and Jo Nesbo for Books Magazine, and fiction reviews for newspapers.