Sophie Jai is a Trinidadian-Canadian novelist. Her debut novel Wild Fires (HarperCollins) has won and been shortlisted for several awards, including the 2023 Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Book Award, the 2023 Toronto Book Awards, the 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and the UK’s 2019 Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. She has been a Writer-in-Residence, Scholar, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she received her Master’s in Creative Writing in 2025.
Sophie Jai
Reviews
Belgrave Road
Big questions about ‘home’ haunt the silences between the star-crossed lovers
20th March 2026
Reviews
Ever Since We Small
Celeste Mohammed's novel explores both the far-reaching impacts of colonialism and the small realities of life that binds its characters
3rd December 2025
My Hit List
Sophie Jai’s cultural highlights
The author on Thievery Corporation's The Richest Man in Babylon, Shadow Prince by the poet Farah Ghafoor, the Sangam House writing residency in India and the play Take d Milk, Nah? by Jivesh Parasram.
24th September 2025
Sophie Jai
Sophie Jai is a Trinidadian-Canadian novelist living in England.