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. She has a keen love of history that began with her first reading of The Three Musketeers as a child. She has been writing since she could pick up a pencil, first emulating the comic books her dad raised her on before moving on to novels.
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.
Photo credit: Sarah Smith
