Jenni Howker was born in Cyprus, where her father was stationed with the RAF, though she has since slowly moved north - first back to the Lancashire mill towns of her's family's origins, and now on to the very remote borders of England and Scotland. Indeed it is the north, its peoples and places, which is reflected in her writing and is the source of her inspiration. There is something about the rugged beauty of the northern uplands, and the often harsh lives that have been lead there, that affects her work.