Jen Thorpe is a South African writer based in Cape Town. Her first novel, The Peculiars, was long listed for the Etisalat Prize for Fiction (2016) and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize (2017). Her second novel, The Fall, is out July 2020. She has edited three collections of feminist essays - My First Time: Stories of Sex and Sexuality from Women Like You (2012), Feminism Is (2018) and Living While Feminist (2020).