List Of Writers

STEPHEN, JACI

Jaci Stephen was born in Cardiff in 1958. She attended the universities of Cardiff, (where she gained a BA in English and a Post–Graduate Certificate in Education), and Lancaster (M.A.) She then taught English for two years at secondary level. Between 1984 and 1990, Jaci Stephen was Television Critic for the London Evening Standard. She was then Television Critic for the short–lived Sunday Correspondent. She moved to the Daily Mail as a columnist, then to Today as Television Critic. She was a columnist on the Independent from September 1994 to April 1996 was Television Critic on The Daily Mirror.

In 1984 she received the Catherine Pakenham Award for female journalist. In 1991 she was runner up in the TV AM Broadcast Journalist Awards in the National Newspaper category. Jaci was shortlisted for Critic of the Year in the British Press Awards in 1995, 1996 and 1999. In 1999 she was named Broadcast Journalist of the Year in What the Papers Say Awards.

In 1987, Jaci Stephen was published in First Fictions: Introduction 9 (Faber and Faber). She recieved a Welsh Arts Council bursary to work on her first novel Definitions of a Horse (Hutchinson, 1990). She has also written fiction for radio. Jaci’s broadcasting work includes BBC Radio 4’s Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, BBC2 ’s The Late Show, BBC1’s The Heaven and Earth Show. She has been a guest Television Critic on numerous radio and television shows.

Jaci Stephen currently works as a freelance journalist and as Television Critic for The Mail on Sunday. Her broadcasting work includes a weekly television slot Soap Box on Granada Television’s This Morning.

Selected Publications:
Definitions of a Horse (Hutchinson, 1990)