Pauline Sara Jo Moyes, known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and an award-winning romance novelist and screenwriter. She was born on 4 August 1969 in Maidstone, Kent, England, but grew up in London. She was the only child of Elizabeth J. McKee and James C. Moyes. Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Bedford New College, London University.

After a varied career, including stints as a minicab controller, a typer of braille statements for blind people for NatWest, and a brochure writer for Club 18-30, she pursued a degree at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University. In 1992, she won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University. Apart from 1994, when she worked in Hong Kong for the Sunday Morning Post, she worked at The Independent for ten years, including stints as Assistant News Editor and Arts and Media Correspondent.

Since 2002, Moyes has been a full-time novelist, with her first book, Sheltering Rain, being published that year. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Her works have been translated into twenty-eight languages and have sold over 40 million copies worldwide.

Jojo Moyes lives on a farmhouse in Great Sampford, Essex, with her husband, journalist Charles Arthur, and their three children.