Daisy Hildyard (born 1984)^[1] is an English novelist and essayist.

Her debut novel, Hunters in the Snow, won the 2014 Somerset Maugham Award,^[2] and her next novel, Emergency, won the 2023 Encore Award, given for a second novel.^[3] Her essay The Second Body (2017) has been described as "an essay on the Anthropocene".^[4] She has also been published in The New Yorker,^[5] Granta,^[4] and The New York Review of Books.^[6]

Hildyard was born in Malton, North Yorkshire.^[7] She gained a first-class degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 2003, and then studied for a doctorate in early modern scientific literature at Queen Mary, University of London.^[8]

She is married to writer Caleb Klaces (winner of a 2012 Eric Gregory Award^[9]); they have a daughter and they live in North Yorkshire.^[10]

• Hildyard, Daisy (2013). Hunters in the Snow. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224097444.^[11]
• Hildyard, Daisy (2023). Emergency. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN 978-1913097813.^[12]
• Hildyard, Daisy (2023). The Second Body. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN 978-1910695470.

• Interview in Tank magazine
• Interview by Rose Brookfield in The London Magazine

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