Jenn Ashworth

Jenn Ashworth is an English novelist and short story writer born in 1982 in Preston, Lancashire, known for her dark, comedic explorations of human emotions, trauma, and family dynamics in novels like A Kind of Intimacy (2009), Cold Light (2011), The Friday Gospels (2013), Fell (2016), and Ghosted (2021). Her debut novel A Kind of Intimacy won the Betty Trask Award in 2010, and she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018 as part of its "40 Under 40" initiative. She studied at Cambridge and Manchester universities, worked as a prison librarian, and is a Professor of Writing at Lancaster University.