Jacqueline Roy was born and raised in London. Her father was Jamaican and her mother was English and she comes from a family of writers. She hated the pressure to conform at school and left early, so she did her degrees as a mature student and moved to Manchester to take up a full-time teaching post at Manchester Metropolitan University.
She lectured in English for many years, specialising in postcolonial literatures. She also taught creative writing at MMU’s Writing School.
She is particularly interested in exploring racial identities and the ways in which those who are marginalised find strategies for fighting back. She is now a full-time writer of fiction. She has written six books for children, published mainly by Penguin Children’s books, and Walker Books, and two novels for adults, The Fat Lady Sings (republished by Penguin, 2021) and The Gosling Girl (published by Simon & Schuster, 2022). A third novel for adults will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2024.
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