Crystal Jeans has had three novels and a short story collection published by Welsh women’s independent Honno Press. Her first novel, The Vegetarian Tigers of Paradise, was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and is currently in development for film. Her second novel, Light Switches are my Kryptonite, won Wales Book of the Year in the English language. The Homeless Hearthrob (Honno) was published in 2019 and subsequently two novels, The Inverts (2021) and Accidental Darlings (2024), have been published by Borough Press. Crystal lives in Pontypridd with her two children.