C. J. Cooke

C. J. Cooke is the pseudonym of Carolyn Jess-Cooke, a Northern Irish novelist, poet and academic born in Belfast in 1978. Writing as C. J. Cooke, she is the author of gothic and psychological thrillers including The Nesting, The Lighthouse Witches, The Ghost Woods, A Haunting in the Arctic, The Book of Witching and The Last Witch.

Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages, and The Lighthouse Witches was named a New York Public Library Book of the Year and nominated for the Edgar Award and the ITW Thriller Award. She is also a Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.