Kathleen Jones lives in the English Lake District and is a Sunday Times best-selling author of biography, fiction and poetry. Her subjects include Katherine Mansfield, Catherine Cookson, Christina Rossetti, and the women of the Wordsworth and Coleridge families (which became a Virago Classic). Kathleen worked in broadcast journalism in England and the Middle East, and is also the author of two historical novels (one of which was the Historical Novel Society's 'Book of the Year') and four collections of poetry. She has taught creative writing for the Open University and the University of Newcastle and became a Royal Literary Fund Fellow in 2007.
