Polly Vernon is an award-winning journalist and an author. Over the last 25 years, she’s worked as a columnist, interviewer and features writer on everything from Vogue to The Guardian; she’s interviewed everyone from Donald Trump (in Trump Tower), to Harry Styles (up the Gherkin). Over the last decade, she’s worked exclusively for Grazia magazine and The Times; she’s won multiple awards for her column in Grazia – she is the current holder of BSME’s Columnist of the Year, which she won for a second time in November 2023, and was Highly Commended for her Saturday Times interviews at the 2019 British Press Awards.

In 2015 she published her first book, Hot Feminist, which both caused controversy, and earned critical plaudits.

She is currently working on a new book about the workings of the female body due for publication in 2025.