Leone Ross was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and her second novel, Orange Laughter, was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Watershed Fiction favourite. Her short fiction has been widely anthologised and her first short-story collection, the 2017 Come Let Us Sing Anyway, was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and the OCM Bocas Prize. Ross has taught creative writing for twenty years, at University College Dublin, Cardiff University and Roehampton University in London. She is editor of the first black British anthology of speculative fiction, due out in 2022 with Peepal Tree Press. Prior to writing fiction, Ross worked as a journalist. Leone Ross lives in London but intends to retire near water.
“A glorious shout of a novel, a sensual, saturated blend of romance, magical realism and erotic comedy…Braruva pieces of whimsy blend with intimate explorations of grief, childishness and crises of sexuality in an intricate narrative set on a single day.”
Her novel This One Sky Day, published in April 2021 by Faber & Faber has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2022 and for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2022.
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