I.J. Kay was born in Suffolk in 1961. She lives in Bristol and in The Gambia, West Africa, but favours a boat on which she writes and travels the waterways of England. In 2006 she took an MA (Creative Writing) with distinction from Bath Spa University. Her debut novel, MOUTAINS OF THE MOON, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012 and won the Author's Club Best First Novel Award 2013.
