Gavanndra Hodge

Gavanndra Hodge has worked in newspapers and magazines for over 20 years, at the Daily Mail, Independent, ES Magazine, and Tatler, where she was deputy editor and acting editor. In 2018 she left Tatler and became a freelance writer, contributing to publications including the the Times, the Telegraph, and WSJ magazine. In 2020 she published her memoir, The Consequences of Love, about her shabbily bohemian upbringing in late '70s Chelsea, her drug dealing father, alcoholic model mother, and her sister, Candy, who died aged nine in a hotel room in Tunisia. Gavanndra is in her second year of a masters degree on Renaissance intellectual history; and lives in South London with her husband, two daughters and two cats.