About

Juliet West worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist before taking an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University in 2009. She graduated with distinction and was joint winner of the Kate Betts’ Memorial Prize for the best work in creative writing.

The opening chapters of Juliet’s debut novel Before the Fall were shortlisted for the Myriad Editions/West Dean novel writing competition in 2012 – the novel was published by Mantle at Pan Macmillan in 2014. The Faithful was published in 2017, also by Pan Macmillan.

Her poetry has been published in various journals and magazines including The French Literary Review, Magma and the Hippocrates Prize Anthology, and her short stories have appeared in the Sunday Times magazine, the Sunday Express and the anthology Murmurations (ed. Nicholas Royle).

Juliet also writes non-fiction books for children, and works as a writing mentor. She has three children and lives in West Sussex.