Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. She is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper, writing two columns on housing, and on inequality and austerity. Foster is also a contributor to the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement and The Independent newspaper in Britain, and The Nation and Dissent magazine in the United States.

Foster was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1987 and grew up in Newport, South Wales. She studied English Literature at Warwick University. In articles for Child Poverty Action Group and The Guardian she wrote that she grew up in poverty in an unemployed single parent family, and was placed in the care system as a teenager. She suffers from epilepsy and neurofibromatosis type II and has written about her disabilities.

Foster's first book, Lean Out, was published in January 2016 by Repeater Books. Her second book, Where Will We Live?, a commentary on the UK housing crisis, will be published by Repeater in 2018. Her biography in the London Review of Books says she is currently completing another book, a cultural history of the dole.

Foster was awarded the International Building Press Prize for Young Journalist of the Year in 2014, and was named Non-traditional Journalist of the Year at the inaugural Words by Women Awards, longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils in 2017, and shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2017.

In September 2017, Foster was listed at Number 82 in 'The 100 Most Influential People on the Left' by political commentator Iain Dale.

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