Jane Yeh was born in the US and has lived in London since 2002. She holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard, Iowa, Manchester Metropolitan, and Royal Holloway, London, universities.

Her first collection of poems, Marabou (Carcanet, 2005), was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward, and Jerwood Aldeburgh poetry prizes. She was named a Next Generation poet by the Poetry Book Society for her second collection, The Ninjas (Carcanet, 2012).

Her third collection, Discipline (Carcanet, 2019), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was named one of the best books of 2019 by The Guardian. A Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University, she also writes on books, theatre, and fashion for such publications as The Poetry Review and The Village Voice.