Jay lives on the Gold Coast with her fiancé, daughter and a dog called Duck. She is a prize winning short story writer whose micro, flash and short stories have been published in numerous publications and anthologies, including Unleash Lit Magazine, Cerasus Magazine, Leicester Writes and Fabula Nivalis. She won the 2022 Exeter Short Story Prize, Fabula Aestas 2023, the fifth Writers Playground challenge and is a two time winner of AWC’s Furious Fiction. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Exeter Novel Prize and the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Mim and Wiggy’s Grand Adventure is her first novel.

You can follow her on her website at www.jaymckenzieauthor.com or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jay_writes_books/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090564052820