Jen Campbell

Jen Campbell is a Sunday Times bestselling author and award‑winning poet, known for her work across nonfiction, poetry, short stories, and children’s books. She is the author of The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers and Other Gruesome Tales, a collection of fourteen retold folk and fairy tales from around the world that restores their original grisly edge while offering contemporary, inclusive representation, including queer and disabled characters and positive depictions of disfigurement.

Campbell’s wider body of work includes the bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series, the nonfiction title The Bookshop Book, the short‑story collection The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, the poetry collection The Girl Aquarium, and the poetry pamphlet The Hungry Ghost Festival, as well as the picture‑book trilogy about a book‑loving dragon: Franklin’s Flying Bookshop, Franklin and Luna Go to the Moon, and Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales. She has received an Eric Gregory Award and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, and she lectures and creates content on the history of fairy tales and the representation of disfigurement, including a video installation on fairy‑tale history and a popular YouTube channel focused on books and