Jane Rogers was born in London in 1952 and lived in Birmingham, New York State (Grand Island) and Oxford, before doing an English degree at Cambridge University. She taught English for 6 years before the publication of her first novel, Separate Tracks. Since then she has written seven novels, original television and radio drama, and adapted work (her own and other writers') for radio and TV. In 1994 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and she is currently Professor of Writing on the MA course at Sheffield Hallam University, and lives near Manchester with her partner and two children. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Prize.
In 2009 Jane's short story 'Hitting Trees With Sticks' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Prize.

Jane's short story sequence appears in Ellipsis 2
Her story 'Lucky' also appears in Manchester Stories 2.
Her story 'Ped-o-Matique' appears in The New Uncanny.

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'Conception'
'Lucky'