Alice Jolly

Alice Jolly is novelist and writer of short stories. Her novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile was runner up for the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize in 2018. Alice has also won the Pen Ackerley Prize, the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize and an O.Henry Award (20 best short stories in the US). She taught fiction for 16 years at Oxford University. Her new novel 'The Matchbox Girl' will be published by Bloomsbury on 6 November 2025.