Alice Jolly is an award-winning novelist, playwright and teacher of creative writing. Her two novels (What the Eye Doesn¿t See and If Only You Knew) are both published by Simon & Schuster. Her articles have been published in the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday and the Independent, and four of her plays have been produced by The Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham.

Jolly was awarded the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize for Dead Babies and Seaside Towns, and in 2014 one of her short stories won the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature. Jolly teaches for the Arvon Foundation and on the Oxford University Master¿s Degree in Creative Writing. She has three children ¿ a son, a daughter who was stillborn and a daughter who was born to a surrogate mother in the United States. Her home is now in Stroud in Gloucestershire.