Want fewer ads?

Carolyn Jess-Cooke (born 1978) is a writer and academic from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She graduated from an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Shakespearean cinema at The Queen's University of Belfast, and is now Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria. She lives in Gateshead with her husband and children.

Jess-Cooke is the author of the novel, The Guardian Angel's Journal, which is published in 2011 in the UK and Commonwealth by Piatkus, an imprint of Little, Brown, and Guideposts Books in the USA. The book is also being translated in eleven other languages.

Jess-Cooke's poetry has also appeared in Poetry London, Poetry New Zealand, Poetry Ireland Review, The Wolf, Magma, Poetry Wales, The Lonely Poets' Guide to Belfast, Black Mountain Review, Ambit, Tower Poetry, The SHOp, on a glass sculpture commissioned by the New Belfast Arts' Initiative. Her debut poetry collection, Inroads, received an Eric Gregory Award, the Northern Promise Award, Tyrone Guthrie Prize for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the New London Poetry Award in 2010. It is New Writing North's Read Regional selection for 2010.

This author page uses material from the Wikipedia article "Carolyn Jess-Cooke", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0