Wild Fires is Sophie Jai’s debut novel. It is the winner of the 2023 Fred Kerner Book Award and 2019 Borough Press x The Good Literary Agency Prize. It is currently longlisted for the 2023 Toronto Book Awards, was shortlisted for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. Jai has been a Writer-in-Residence & Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is an alumna of the Humber School for Writers where she studied under Olive Senior. She is currently working on her second novel of short stories at the University of Oxford.