Jessica Andrews is a novelist and cultural critic whose work examines class, gender, and the body; her debut Saltwater won the Portico Prize in 2020 and her second novel, Baby Teeth, was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Prize in 2023, with her fiction translated into seven languages. A contributing editor at ELLE and a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Independent, and BBC Radio 4, she has also written a stage adaptation of Saint Maud and co-hosts the literary podcast "Tender Buttons". She lectures in creative writing at City University London and teaches at Faber Academy and ARVON.