Jan Carson FRSL is a writer from Northern Ireland. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears (2014), ChildrenâÂÂs Children (2016), Postcard Stories (2017), The Fire Starters (2019) â which won the EU Prize for Literature in 2019 â and The Raptures (2021). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.
Born in Ballymena in 1980, Carson lives in Belfast, where she runs arts events for the elderly.