Kathleen Jones

KATHLEEN JONES was born and brought up on a hill farm in the north of England, she escaped to London as a teenager in order to become a writer. She spent several years in Africa and the Middle East - where she worked in English broadcasting - before returning home. She read law and then English Literature as a mature student at university before specialising in early women writers - work that culminated in A Glorious Fame, the life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Her extensive published work includes radio journalism, articles for magazines and newspapers, short fiction and eleven books - a mixture of biography, general non-fiction and two poetry collections. She is currently living in Cumbria and writing a biography of Katherine Mansfield [http://www.katherinemansfield.net/biography/about.htm] which she has been working on for several years, visiting New Zealand and gathering research material from hundreds of sources.

She has published poetry, feature articles and short fiction in a variety of national and international magazines and newspapers . Her short stories have been anthologised and also broadcast on Radio 4 and on radio networks in Holland, Germany and Spain. She is on the British Council [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02D9L201112627421] authors list and was one of the featured authors in the recent 'Save our Short Story Anthology' compiled by the Arts Council on the internet.

A prize-winning, collection of poetry ['Unwritten Lives'] was published by Redbeck Press in 1995 and a further collection 'Secret Eden' was exhibited as part of a collaborative project for Visual Arts Year 97 with landscape photographer Tony Riley.Kathleen Jones is a regular performer at Literature Festivals all over Britain and leads creative writing workshops for fiction, poetry and life writing. She is also a tutor for the Open University's new creative writing programme and currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow [http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=186&menu=2] .

Her work 'is characterised by an ability to select and extract details from her research and use them to paint a coherent portrait of her subject, bringing them vividly to life. She crafts strong stories from real events leaving you with a feeling that you know and understand the subject of the biography'.

Bibliography

Biography

*1988 A Glorious Fame,(Bloomsbury). "Biography of Margaret Cavendish "
*1990 Learning not to be First, (Windrush ,OUP, 1991, Goldmann (Germany) 1996), "Biography of Christina Rossetti".
*1997 A Passionate Sisterhood, (Constable , Virago [http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Authors/I-J/1639] 1998). "Lives of the Wives, Sisters and Daughters of Wordsworth and Coleridge"
*1999 Catherine Cookson: The Biography, (Constable, Little Brown 2000, Random House Australia 2000).
*2003 An Introduction to Margaret Forster (Northern Lights ISBN 0905404920).

Other Non Fiction

* 2004 Seeking Catherine Cookson’s Da (Constable Robinson), A genealogical quest. "as Kate Gordon:-"
*A Practical Guide to Alternative Weddings, Constable 1998 reprint 2002 ISBN-10: 1841196061
*A Practical Guide to Alternative Baptism and Baby-naming, Constable 1998
*A Practical Guide to Alternative Funerals, Constable 1998 ISBN 0 09 478770 0

Poetry

*Invisible Lipstick, (Stone Edge Press) 1986
*Rumours of Another Sky (Stone Edge Press) 1987
*Unwritten Lives (Redbeck Press) 1995 ISBN 0946980225
*Other Poetry 2001 (ISBN 01445847)

Short Fiction

*Northern Stories Vol 5 1994 Ed. Beryl Bainbridge and David Pownall ISBN 0946407975
*Arc Short Stories Vol 8 1997 (Ed. Maureen Freely and Livi Michael) ISBN 1900072165
*Eating Your Cake - and Having it (Anthology) ISBN 0952515512
* BBC Radio 4 Short Story slot, 1994, 1995, 1998
*Tabla 1996, 1999,(ISBN 0953298116); 2001, (ISBN 0953298132).
*Pitch 2001 (ed by Susan Tranter) [http://www.susantranter.co.uk/]
*Landscape into Literature - A Writers' Anthology 2005 ISBN 1903998557

As Educator

"Adult Education Courses, Creative writing"
*Weston super mare College of Further Education 1987-1990
*Bristol Adult Education Dept. 1987-1990
*Nailsea and Backwell Adult Education Dept 1988-90
*Carlisle College of Further Education 1993-6
*Kendal College of Further Education 1995-9

"University Appointments"
*University of Bristol, Principal part-time tutor and moderator, Women's Studies and CreativeWriting, Department of Continuing Education 1990-94
*University of Newcastle, Centre for Lifelong Learning, tutor, Women's Studies, EnglishLiterature and Creative Writing, 1993-99.
*The Open College, (based at Lancaster University and Kendal College Outreach) Part-timetutor and moderator, Creative Writing and Women's Studies 1995 - 2000.
* Open University on-line Creative writing degree course 2005 to date.
* Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Teeside University 2007 to date.

External links

* [http://www.kathleenjones.co.uk] Authors website
* [http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=186&menu=2] Royal Literary Fund Fellows
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02D9L201112627421] British Council Authors website
* [http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Authors/I-J/1639] Little Brown Published authors website
* [http://www.constablerobinson.com/?section=authors&author=kathleen_jones] Constable Robinson
* [http://us.macmillan.com/Author/kathleenjones] Macmillans Authors Site