Writer Rachel Jackson
I am a writer and one of the founder members of The Contemporary Women Writers' Club.

I first started writing short stories in 2001, for the Erotic Review under Rowan Pelling.  Since then I have written for various women’s magazines and been signed to Curtis Brown for a first novel.  Publishing our first anthology, The Leap Year, was a joy and a revelation which has taken my writing in exciting new directions, as well as bonding me firmly with the other Queenbees.

I live with my partner and his twins in a hamlet by the Thames, in surroundings that influence me as much as my Jamaican-Nigerian roots. My ideal ten past eight moment would be spent sitting by the river, in the dying days of summer enjoying a large glass of Syrah as the sun sinks into the south Oxforshire downs. That, or landing in some as yet unexplored city, with only my passport, a credit card and a cocktail dress...