Jacqueline Crooks is a British writer whose debut novel, Fire Rush, was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. She was described as one of the "10 best new novelists for 2023" by The Observer.^[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][3] One of her short stories was shortlisted for the BBC national short story award in 2019.^[1]

Her debut novel, Fire Rush, took 16 years to write and is based on her diary entries.^[1][4] It has been shortlisted for prizes including:

• Women's Prize for Fiction (2023)^{[citation needed]}
• Waterstones debut fiction prize( 2023).^[5][6]
• Jhalak Prize (2024)^[7]
• Authors' Club Best First Novel Award (2024), where it was highly commended^[8]
• Paul Torday Memorial Prize (2024)^[9]
• McKitterick Prize (2024)^[10]

• Crooks, Jacqueline (2018). The Ice Migration. Peepal Tree Press. ISBN 9781845233587.
• Crooks, Jacqueline (2023). Fire Rush. Penguin. ISBN 9780593300534.

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