Jude Brown

Jude Brown grew up in Middlesbrough, a town in the north east of England. She has lived in London, Liverpool, Reading and Sydney and travelled widely in Europe. She has also visited the USA, Canada, Indonesia, Australia and Hong Kong. A career butterfly she's worked as a secretary, nurse, designer, art therapist and creative writing tutor.

She moved to Sheffield, England, to study an MA in Creative Writing where she began writing His Dark Sun, her debut novel. Her short stories and poems have been published in several anthologies and her work has been shortlisted for the Bridport and Raymond Carver Short Story Prizes. She is the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award and an Arts Council Award. His Dark Sun is published by Mayfly Press, a member of the Northern Fiction Alliance, and part of New Writing North and Moth Publishing.

At the age of ten she spent her summer break writing a full length children's book, which she typed up on a Petite typewriter. She moved house a year later and the manuscript got lost in transition after the family decluttered. She is still sore about it and remains a fully paid-up hoarder.