Jenn Ashworth
Jenn Ashworth’s first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. On the publication of her second, Cold Light (Sceptre, 2011) she was featured on the BBC’s The Culture Show as one of the UK’s twelve best new writers. In 2019 she published a memoir-in-essays, Notes Made While Falling which was a New Statesman Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Her latest novel is Ghosted: A Love Story which was shortlisted for the Portio Prize. She is also a short story writer, widely published in journals and anthologies and broadcast by the BBC. In 2022 her short story 'Flat 19' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and in 2025 a linked set of short stories, The White Lady Of Morecambe was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her latest book is The Parallel Path, a memoir of walking the coast to coast path. She lives in Lancashire and is a Professor of Writing at Lancaster University.