Jane was born in London in 1952 and lived in Birmingham, New York State (Grand Island) and Oxford, before doing an English degree at Cambridge University. She taught English for 6 years before the publication of her first novel, Separate Tracks. Since then she has written seven novels, original television and radio drama, and adapted work (her own and other writers') for radio and TV. In 1994 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Work as an editor includes anthologies of new writing, and a reference guide to fiction. She has taught writing to a wide range of students, and is currently Professor of Writing on the MA course at Sheffield Hallam University.

Jane lives near Manchester with her partner and two children, making occasional forays to Australia, where her family live.

Jane's sequence appears in Ellipsis 2
Her story 'Lucky' also appears in Manchester Stories 2.

Listen to Jane read her short story 'Lucky'

Titles by Jane Rogers

Ellipsis 2

Featuring: Jane Rogers, Polly Clark and Zoe Lambert

A bank manager arrives at work one day to find himself the new employer of his ex-wife.

In the middle of a shift a divorced bus driver abandons his vehicle, to search for his estranged son.

Two sisters come to terms with their father?s disappearance with the help of a skeleton called Indira.
The stories in Ellipsis 2 explore the inherent dysfunctionality of almost all relationships, their aftermaths, and the lengths people go to to redeem them. From the ingrained resentments of Jane Rogers' parent-child histories, to the twisted claustrophobia of Polly Clark's couples, and the absence that travels beside each passenger in Zoe Lambert's bus sequence - these stories demonstrate the transforming, often alienating affect a relationship can have on the individuals in it, and remind us that being next of kin isn't always kind.

Ellipsis is a unique series presenting linked or themed sequences of short stories by three writers in each volume. All three are previously uncollected as short story authors, two of them in each issue are established (as novelists or poets), the third, in this case Zoe Lambert, is previously unpublished.

 

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Details

• ISBN 0954828038
• Publisher Comma Press
• Genre Short Fiction
• Setting Greater Manchester