Jacqueline Crooks is a British writer whose debut novel, Fire Rush, was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.
[1] Crooks was born in Jamaica and raised in Southall, west London.
[1] She graduated from the University of Roehampton with a degree in Social Policy and Goldsmiths, University of London with a Master of Arts (MA) in Creative and Life Writing.
[2] Crooks wrote a short story collection titled The Ice Migration which was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell political fiction prize.
[1] Her debut novel, Fire Rush, took 16 years to write and is based on her diary entries.