Zoe Street Howe is a freelance music writer and author of the acclaimed biography Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits. Her work has appeared on BBC Music, The Quietus, 4Music, NME/NME.com, Fly and Contemporary Magazine and in the urban short story anthology Hyperkinetic. She also broadcasts her own alternative music show, Paranoimia, across Europe, and is an experimental musician, having worked with Viv Albertine, Steve Beresford, Mick Jones and Yumi Hara amongst others.