Jane Holland is an award-winning poet and novelist, and also a commissioning editor for Embrace Books, an imprint of Salt Publishing. Her latest publication is CAMPER VAN BLUES (Salt). She is currently writing a historical novel set in Tudor England. Literary agent: Luigi Bonomi at LBA. For news, comment, and links to her books, visit Jane's writing blog at http://rawlightblog.blogspot.com * BIOGRAPHY: Jane Holland was born in Ilford, Essex, in 1966. She is the daughter of best-selling romantic novelist Charlotte Lamb and classical biographer Richard Holland, moving with them to the Isle of Man in 1977, where she lived for 23 years before returning to mainland Britain. From 1989-1995, Jane Holland played snooker on the women's professional circuit, rising to 24th in the world, but retired from the game after a dispute with her local governing body in 1995. She began writing poetry the same year and won an ERIC GREGORY AWARD from the Society of Authors in 1996. She founded BLADE in 1995, described by Neil Astley as 'one of Britain's gutsiest poetry magazines', and edited the magazine for nine issues until 1999. Her first collection of poetry, THE BRIEF HISTORY OF A DISREPUTABLE WOMAN, was published by Bloodaxe in 1997. The same year, she performed on the New Blood UK Tour with fellow Bloodaxe poets Roddy Lumsden, Julia Copus, Tracey Herd and Eleanor Brown. Jane Holland's second poetry collection, BOUDICCA & CO, was published by Salt Publishing in 2006. In 2008, she published a chapbook edition of THE LAMENT OF THE WANDERER (a new version of the Anglo-Saxon poem, with facing-text Anglo-Saxon), available from Heaventree Press, Coventry. This was followed by ON WARWICK, a pamphlet of poems from her Warwick Laureateship, published by Nine Arches Press. CAMPER VAN BLUES is her latest poetry collection and came out in October 2008 from Salt Publishing: http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714674.htm Jane's first novel, KISSING THE PINK, came out with Sceptre in 1999 while she was at Brasenose College, Oxford, reading English as a mature undergraduate. Her poetry, reviews and critical articles have subsequently appeared in many UK journals, including Poetry Review, Acumen, Poetry London, The North, Mslexia, Stand, Thumbscrew, London Magazine, The London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. She has run poetry workshops for adults and children, and has tutored for the Arvon Foundation alongside Alan Brownjohn. In 2007-08, she was Warwick Poet Laureate. Anthologies where her work has been featured include Bloodaxe's MAKING FOR PLANET ALICE and NEW BLOOD, Picador's ALL THE POEMS YOU NEED TO SAY I DO, edited by Peter Forbes (2004), NOT JUST A GAME, edited by Sue Dymoke & Andy Croft (Five Leaves Publications, 2006), and BE MINE, an anthology of love poems edited by Sally Emerson (Little Brown 2007). Jane Holland lives in Warwickshire, England, with her partner and five children, where she very much misses being able to write within sight of the sea. * For fiction enquiries only, please contact literary agents, LUIGI BONOMI ASSOCIATES. * This site last updated June 26th 2010