Jane Rogers was born in London in 1952 and lived in Birmingham, New York State and Oxford before studying English at New Hall from 1971-74. She taught English for six years before the publication in 1983 of her first novel, Separate Tracks. Since then she has written seven novels and original television and radio drama; she has also adapted work (her own and other writers') for radio and television. She is also the editor of Oxford University Press's Good Fiction Guide, published in 2001. In 1994 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has taught writing to a wide range of students and is currently (2006) Professor of Writing on the MA course at Sheffield Hallam University. She lives near Manchester with her partner and two children. For Jane Rogers' website, see www.janerogers.org