Jaclyn Moriarty (born 1968 in Perth) is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature.
She then complete a Masters in Law at Yale University and a PhD at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[1] She worked as an entertainment and media lawyer for four years before becoming a full-time writer.
The literary agent who picked up her first book, Feeling Sorry for Celia, was Australian author Garth Nix.
[1] Moriarty was previously married to Canadian writer Colin McAdam, and they have one young son, Charlie.
[2] The Ashbury/Brookfield series of novels are (in chronological order): This trilogy retains some familiar features of Moriarty's style, such as a loosely epistolary form (the use of alternating chapters in which characters speak in their own quite distinctive voices); a sneaky sense of humor; and a plot that keeps the reader off balance by constantly subverting the 'facts' that one thought one understood.