Jaki McCarrick is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Middlesex University. She writes plays, fiction and poetry. Her play, Leopoldville, won the 2010 Papatango Award for New Writing, and her most recent play, Belfast Girls, developed at the National Theatre Studio in 2012, was shortlisted for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Jaki's short story, The Visit, won the 2010 Wasafiri Short Fiction Prize (judged by Romesh Guneskera) and appears in the 2012 Anthology of Best British Short Stories (published by Salt). Her debut collection of short stories, The Scattering, will be published by Seren Books in March 2013. Jaki is currently writing her first novel.
