JUDE COOK

Jude Cook is the author of the novels Byron Easy (2013) and Jacob’s Advice (2020). He reviews fiction for The Guardian, The Spectator, Literary Review, the tls, and his short fiction has appeared in The Moth, Tamarind and The Tangerine. He is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Westminster, and in 2025 was a judge for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses. In the same year, he launched a new press, Conduit Books, spotlighting working-class voices and overlooked regional writing, focusing initially on male authors. For The New Menard Press he contributed to the bestselling anthology On Being Ill.