Jane Rogers writes novels, stories, and radio drama. She has set books in the present (Island) and the past (Mr Wroe’s Virgins) but she is increasingly drawn to future fiction. The Testament of Jessie Lamb won the Arthur C Clarke Award and was Man-Booker longlisted. Her novels have won prizes ranging from the Somerset Maugham Award (Her Living Image) to the Writers Guild Best Fiction Award (Promised Lands), and she was BAFTA nominated for her adaptation of Mr Wroe’s Virgins for BBC2.

The title story of her first collection of stories, Hitting Trees with Sticks, was a finalist in the BBC National Short Story competition, and her second collection Fire-Ready has just been published in December 2024.

Jane is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is Emerita Professor of Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, where she taught for many years. She has taught novel and short story for Faber, currently mentors for Gold Dust, runs workshops for MsLexia, and supervises on the MSt in Writing at Oxford. She is passionate about giving students the craft tools to make their writing sing, and forging communities between the writers she teaches; she is also an eagle-eyed editor and an honest critic.