Alice Jolly’s most recent novel, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, was published in 2018 by Unbound. It was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Alice has also won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for memoir and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for one of her short stories. She was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 2021 and teaches creative writing at Oxford University.