Jenn Ashworth

Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston, Lancashire and studied at Cambridge and Manchester. She's worked as a barmaid, a waitress, a Samaritan and a cleaner and she currently lives with her daughter in Preston and runs a library inside a prison. She writes a blog here: www.jennashworth.blogspot.com. Her first novel, A Kind of Intimacy was published by Arcadia in May 2009 and was selected by Waterstone's as one of their New Voices of the year. Cold Light was published by Headline in April 2011.  Jenn was named as one of the twelve authors to watch in 2011 by the Guardian and The Culture Show.