Jane is a British poet who has worked as a teacher in London, Tanzania and Strasbourg.  She lectures in creative writing at the Universities of Reading, Oxford, and Lancaster and has been poet in residence at the River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames.  Nominated 3 times for the Forward Prize, her collections include No Theatre (1997) and Christina the Astonishing (1998) with Lesley Saunders. Later collections Prince Rupert's Drop (1999), and The Night Tree (2004) were both Poetry Book Society Recommendations. “The Night Tree is the finest collection I've read for ages.” (David Morley, University of Warwick, The Guardian September 2004.  See full review at this link).  In 2002, she was winner of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize and in 2004, she was named as one of the Next Generation poets.  Jane has her own website which may be visited at this link.