Jan Darling is an author and a poet. She is a contributing member of The Society of Classical Poets, where she writes traditional classical forms of poetry, and a contributor to The Australian Children's Poetry, where she writes rhyming narrative poetry, mostly about nature and animals - her favourite subjects. In an earlier life she studied Speech and Drama for ATCL and LTCL qualifications as a Teacher. She has spent most of her working life writing within advertising and marketing, in New Zealand, London, Barcelona, New York and Sydney. She has always written short stories and from time to time, sold some. She lives in rural New South Wales with her husband and Paco their familiar.
