KATHLEEN JONES lives with her partner, sculptor Neil Ferber, on the edge of the Lake District. She has been writing since she was a child and has published ten books including six biographies and a collection of poetry. She lived for several years in Africa and the Middle East, where she worked for the Qatar Broadcasting Corporation. Since then she has written extensively for BBC radio and contributed to several television documentaries.

As a journalist Kathleen has written articles and reviews for the Independent, the Guardian, the Daily Express, and the TLS, as well as magazines such as SHE and Cosmo.

Kathleen's poetry has appeared in all the leading poetry magazines and has been included in the South Bank poetry archive. Her award winning short fiction has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and has been read on Radio 4 and on radio networks in Germany and Spain. One of her stories was chosen for the Arts Council's online collection during the ‘Save our Short Story' campaign and Kathleen's most recent work, ‘Living with the Dead', is in the ‘Route Offline' anthology published by Route publishing.