Briony Cameron

Briony Cameron is a queer disabled writer based in Cardiff. Her father was of Jamaican, Panamanian and Cuban heritage and her mother is of English and Welsh heritage. She studied English and Creative Writing at University, graduating in 2020.

Briony's debut novel, The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye was published in 2024 (Piatkus, UK and Atria, US) and won the Readers' Choice Award for Adult Fiction at the 2025 Diverse Book Awards, as well as being shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction, and longlisted for the Penguin WriteNow Competition.

Alongside writing, she is an avid knitter and she loves to play videogames and spend time with her dogs, Keanu and Zuko.