Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born to a musical family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is an award-winning author of poems and novels for adults, as well as four nonfiction books. Her first poetry collection, Inroads, won the Tyrone Guthrie Award, an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, a Northern Promise Award, and was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award. Her bestselling novel, The Guardian Angel’s Journal, has been translated into twenty-one languages.