Jane Jakeman, is Welsh by birth. She now lives in Oxford, England, with her husband and their two half-Siamese cats, Philosopher and Explorer. Jane has a doctorate in art history from Oxford University. She is the author of numerous articles and reviews in British journals and newspapers, such as The New Statesman, The Oxford Magazine and The Sunday Times. She has published a distinguished series of interviews with writers in The Independent, for which she regularly reviews crime fiction.

Jane has a website at:http://malfine.tripod.com/