Jenny Diski (born July 8, 1947) in London) is a British writer. She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America Without Interruptions. Jenny Diski is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; the collections Don't and A View from the Bed include articles and essays written for the publication. Her partner is Ian Patterson, known as "the Poet" in Diski's writings, who is also a translator and Director of English studies at Queens' College, Cambridge.