Jo Hamya is a writer and academic based in London. She has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Booker Prize, where she has also worked on film projects alongside Ben Okri, Sarah Waters, and Penelope Lively among others. Her debut novel Three Rooms (2021), was published by Jonathan Cape and Mariner books. A second novel will be published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson and Pantheon Books in 2024. She is currently completing a doctorate on literary sociology and the internet at King’s College London.