Jane Rogers was born in London in 1952 and lived in Birmingham, New York State (Grand Island) and Oxford, before doing an English degree at Cambridge University. She taught English for 6 years before the publication of her first novel, Separate Tracks. Since then she has written seven novels, original television and radio drama, and adapted work (her own and other writers') for radio and TV. In 1994 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.   Her work as an editor includes anthologies of new writing, and a reference guide to fiction. She has taught writing to a wide range of students, and is currently Professor of Writing on the MA course at Sheffield Hallam University.  Jane lives near Manchester with her partner and two children, making occasional forays to Australia, where her family live.

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