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Carolyn Jess-Cooke

I'm the author of the award-winning poetry collection INROADS (Seren, 2010) and THE GUARDIAN ANGEL'S JOURNAL, published by Little, Brown in the UK and Guideposts Books in the US, as well as 22 other languages. My second novel, THE BOY WHO COULD SEE DEMONS, was released in May 2012. I have also written/co-edited four academic books in the fields of Shakespeare and film. The US version of THE BOY WHO COULD SEE DEMONS is released August 2013 by Random House, and my second poetry collection BOOM! was published in 2014. As CJ Cooke I have published I KNOW MY NAME (HarperCollins, 2017), THE BLAME GAME (HarperCollins, 2019), and THE NESTING (2020).


“Nobody needs to be taken to Hell to experience it. We just grow despair inside the soul until it becomes a world in and around a human.”
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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