Kathleen Jones was born and brought up on a hill farm in the English Lake District. She spent some years living in Africa and the Middle East, where she worked in broadcasting. She is a poet, biographer and novelist, whose subjects include Katherine Mansfield, Catherine Cookson, Christina Rossetti, and the pioneering 17th century writer Margaret Cavendish. Her account of the lives of the women associated with the Lake Poets, 'A Passionate Sisterhood' was a Virago Classic. Kathleen worked in broadcast journalism and is the author of two novels and a collection of short fiction. She has taught creative writing in a number of universities, is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and in 2012 was elected a Fellow of the English Association for services to literature. She has also published four collections of poetry and a travel journal, 'Travelling to the Edge of the World'. Kathleen lives in the Lake District with her partner, who is a sculptor.
