Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in 1978 to a musical family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is an award-winning author of poems and novels for adults, as well as four non-fiction books in the areas of Shakespeare, cinema, and film sequels. Her first poetry collection, INROADS, won the Tyrone Guthrie Prize, an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, a Northern Promise Award, and was shortlisted for the New London Poetry Prize. Her debut novel, THE GUARDIAN ANGEL'S JOURNAL, was published in 2011 in the UK & Commonwealth (Piatkus), USA (Guideposts), and in 20 other languages. Her second novel, THE BOY WHO COULD SEE DEMONS, was published May 2012 in the UK & Commonwealth; Bantam Dell are publishing the US version in 2013.