Alicia Foster trained as an art historian before becoming a novelist. Warpaint is her first novel (Penguin, Figtree, 2013), and third published book. Previous publications include Gwen John, a monograph drawing on her doctoral research (Tate/Princeton, 1999), and Tate Women Artists, the first complete survey of women represented in the Tate collections (Tate, 2004). Her next novel is set in the early 1920s in Yorkshire and will tell the story of a violent collision between the forces of modernity and reaction. Foster grew up in Yorkshire, but these days she lives by the sea in Kent. She has spent a number of years as a lecturer teaching Fine Art students about art history and the practice of writing.
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