Jack Monroe is an award-winning food writer and bestselling author. Books include A Girl Called Jack, A Year In 120 Recipes, Cooking On A Bootstrap, Tin Can Cook and Vegan (ish). She has won the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Award (ironically); the Observer Food Monthly Best Food Blog and Food Personality Of The Year; Marie Claire ‘Woman At The Top’; Red Magazine’s ‘Red Hot Women’; the YMCA Courage & Inspiration Award; the Woman Of The Year Entrepreneur Award; the Women Of The Future Media Award and many more. She works with and supports The Trussell Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Plan Zheroes, The Food Chain and countless food banks, schools and children’s centres to teach people to cook and eat well on a low income, and campaigns against the causes of poverty and austerity in Britain and abroad. She lives in Southend on Sea, Essex, with her partner and son, and a large ginger cat.
