Jo baker author biography page

British writer

For other people with the same name, see Jo Baker (disambiguation).

Jo Baker is a British writer.

She is the author of six novels, including Longbourn. She has also written short stories for BBC Radio 4 and reviews for The Guardian and The New York Times Book Review. In 2018, she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Queen's University Belfast, and she is currently an Honorary Fellow at Lancaster University.

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Early life and education

Baker was born and grew up in the village of Arkholme, in Lancashire, England. She was educated at Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Somerville College, Oxford. She moved to Belfast in 1995 to study for an MA in Irish literature at Queen's University,^[1] where she went on to complete a PhD on the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen.

Novels

• Offcomer (2002). Baker's debut novel is set in Belfast in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, and follows the life of Claire Th