Jason Cowley is a journalist, magazine editor and writer.

He became editor of the New Statesman in October 2008. Before that, he was editor of Granta magazine and of the award-winning Observer Sport Monthly, and a staff writer on the Times.

He is the author of a novel, Unknown Pleasures (Faber & Faber, 2000), and his second book, a memoir called The Last Game: Love, Death and Football, was published by Simon & Schuster in hardback in spring 2009 and in paperback in spring 2010.

He is a director of Zamyn, a founding member of the council of the Caine Prize for African Writing and a former Booker Prize judge.