Jac Shreeves-Lee

Jac Shreeves-Lee is a consultant clinical psychologist who specialises in supporting children, adults and families. In previous lives, Jac was a youth worker, secondary school teacher, educational psychologist and a Justice of the Peace. More recently she has returned to her love of literature and after completing an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, she had her first collection of short stories, Broadwater, published by Fairlight Books in 2020. In the following year, Broadwater was shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards. Earlier published fiction includes the publication of Mama B’s Kitchen in Short Circuits, Virago (1996) and publications in the Mechanics Institute Review. A member of the Bridport Prize family, Jac won a Bridport Prize for Runaway in 2017. In November 2024, her manuscript for The Sky That We Look Upon was awarded with an SI Leeds Literary Prize.

Jac is a Londoner of Caribbean heritage who derives great pleasure from simple activities such as running singalongs with toddlers in her local library and restoring beauty to a long-neglected garden. She is a keen fan of the arts who finds equal sparks of inspiration in art galleries, at bus stops and market stalls. She writes about the complexities and poetry of the human heart – the steam rising – and the way we live now.

Photo credit: Maxim Vinciguerra at Infinity Focus Photography