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Jemma Wayne graduated from Cambridge University with an academic scholarship for her achievements in Social and Political Sciences, and went on to obtain her PGDIP in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Westminster before becoming a journalist and writer. Working first as a reporter at The Jewish Chronicle and later as a columnist for The Jewish News, she is now a regularly featured blogger at The Huffington Post and continues to contribute to various publications including The Evening Standard, The Independent on Sunday, National Geographic, Red Magazine, Standard Issue and The Jewish Quarterly, amongst others. Jemma’s first full-length work, Bare Necessities – a tongue-in-cheek survival guide – was published by Piatkus Books in 2004. Her play, Negative Space, ran at The New End Theatre, Hampstead, in 2009 to critical acclaim. And her short stories have appeared in a variety of publications. Jemma’s first novel, After Before, was published by Legend Press in 2014. It was short-listed for the 2015 Waverton Good Read Award, long-listed for the Guardian’s 2014 Not the Booker Prize, and for the 2015 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Chains of Sand, was published by Legend Press in June 2016. Writing under Jemma Wayne-Kattan she has also co-authored a children's book, Gita: The Battle of the Worlds, published by Harper 360 in July 2018. Jemma lives in North London.
