ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jane England was born in Christchurch in 1960 and is a graduate of both Canterbury University in Christchurch and Victoria University of Wellington, where she completed her MA in Creative Writing in 1997. Jane has been a journalist and foreign correspondent, and is now working on the last draft of a novel derived from a short story published in the anthology Penguin 25 New Fiction (1998). For the last three years she has been living in Samoa where in 2003 she won the Samoa short story (English) competition. She recently returned with her family to Christchurch where she is now based.