Jack’s debut novel, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones, was published to critical acclaim in the UK and US by Penguin Random House in 2013. It was listed for the Edinburgh Lit Festival Best Debut Novel and for the Polari Prize for Queer Fiction, and won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel award that year ahead of strong competition. Jack subsequently completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and taught at Bath Spa for several years on the university’s BA and prestigious MA in Creative Writing programmes. Jack now teaches on the Open University’s online MA in Creative Writing and also offers freelance manuscript consultation and mentoring. Mammoth and Crow is Jack’s second novel. A third novel, The Devil and The Rainbow, is planned for publication in 2023.