Jane Rogers is the author of eight novels, including Mr Wroe’s Virgins, produced as an award-winning BBC drama directed by Danny Boyle; Her Living Image, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; and Promised Lands, recipient of a Writers Guild Best Fiction Award. Her novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011 and received the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2012. Rogers is a professor of writing at Sheffield Hallam University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Lancashire, England.
Photograph by Laurie Harris.