Kathleen Jones is a biographer and poet. Her published work includes A Glorious Fame (Bloomsbury), Learning not to be First - Christina Rossetti (OUP), A Passionate Sisterhood (Virago), Catherine Cookson (Time Warner), Margaret Forster: An Introduction (Northern Lights) and Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller, (Penguin/Edinburgh University Press), as well as a poetry pamphlet Unwritten Lives (Redbeck Press). Kathleen lived for ten years in the Middle East working in broad-casting, and now lives in the Lake District, where she teaches creative writing for the Open University and is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Lancaster University