Bio

Marina Kemp is the author of Nightingale and The Unwilding, and has been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer and Times Breakthrough Artist Awards and the Pat Kavanagh Prize. She studied at Oxford and Goldsmiths and lives now in South London.

Books

My second novel, The Unwilding, was published by 4th Estate in July 2024. You can buy it here or here.

My second novel, Nightingale, was published by 4th Estate in 2020 and by Penguin US under the title Marguerite. You can buy it here or here or here or, hopefully, in your local bookshop.

Other

I have written for publications including the Guardian, Sunday Times and Telegraph. I am also co-founder of Ink Academy, a bespoke creative writing course that pairs up aspiring writers with thoughtful, experienced tutors individually chosen to suit each writer’s style and needs. You can read more about that here.

Contact

Professional enquiries are best directed through my agent, Clare Alexander, at Aitken Alexander.

For anything else you can contact me directly below.