Bio

Jay hates biographies and would just put ‘neurodivergent deviant demiboy’ here if he had his way, the miserable old cunt. When he’s not doing his nails, forming emotional bonds with inanimate objects, or listening to techno and pretending he’s still twenty, he's guiding disadvantaged teens through an education system designed to perpetuate inequality and crush those who dare to dream different. 

He lives in Suffolk with his long-suffering wife, and works somewhere in a dark corner of Essex. Jay Klements is a nom de plume because the real Jay thinks having a pen name makes him mysterious and interesting. Mind you, he also believes wearing a rollneck jumper makes him edgy and subversive, so his judgement can hardly be trusted. Either way, 'Jay' is a more comfortably non-binary name than the one on his birth certificate.

Jay writes for catharsis, and is now on a mission to reanimate cyberpunk's neon-lit corpse with an injection of British dystopian grime. His first novel was a contemporary thriller, No Good Deed, which was published in 2019. After reinventing himself as a pound-shop William Gibson, his second novel - Safe State - finally emerged in 2025 alongside a short story and novella set in the same world. 

New works remain slow to appear, but that's not surprising. Jay has been called many things beginning with p, but prolific isn't one of them...

Favourite Books:

Extremophile / The Quantum Thief / Change Agent / Equations of Life / Accelerando / The Peripheral / Eversion / New Model Army / Gridlinked / Wool / The Water Knife / The Diamond Age

Favourite Music (this week):

Delirium (feat. fknsyd) - Rezz & isqa

Archangel - Pendulum

Breach - Billain & Tasha Baxter

2NIGHT - Paayne

Elevate - Sub Focus

Solar - Nero

Throw Down Let Go - Spor

Hypnotized - Marc Korn, Semitoo & HEAD & HEART

Need To Feel Loved - Kastuvas

Faux Fur (like you like it) - Niklas Dee

did i tell u that i miss u - adore

I Ain't Goin' Out Like That - BLACKGOLD & FEVER 333

Straight To Heart - ALT BLK ERA

BLACK & BLUE - Ravenscoon & Jessy Covets

Shot to the Brain - Angerfist & CARV

Something (ft. Romy Dya) - HR Troels, Morty Simmons & Crystal Rock

Tsunami - Alok & Ely Oaks

Restless - NGHTMRE, Liquid Stranger & Mougleta

Favourite Films:

Children of Men / Logan / Threads / Elysium / Scum / Dirty Harry / John Wick 4 / War for the Planet of the Apes / The Equalizer / The Butterfly Effect / Con Air

Favourite Quotes:

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed, is here in my arms. Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm...

Loves:

My wife. Birds. Small victories. Creative profanity. Unexpected kindness. Waking up and discovering I'm not dead yet.

Hates:

Testosterone