Jan Sargeant lives in a conservation village in West Yorkshire. Having retired in 2016, she is a successful artist as well as writer, seeing both as helping her live with the progressive disability caused by Parkinson's Disease. Emeritus Poetry Editor for the Quiver, based in USA, she is a published poet and academic writer as well as a house artist for People and Paintings Gallery, New York. In her spare time, she runs a support group for 2000+ others living with Parkinson's and makes banana cake.
