Jenny Lewis trained as a painter before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and gaining an M.Phil in Poetry from the University of Glamorgan. She has been a singer-songwriter, an advertising copywriter, a children's author, playwright and screenwriter, a teacher and a civil servant, and she has also worked for the Commission for Equality and Human Rights. Lewis currently lives in Oxford, where she teaches poetry at Oxford University. She is also a Writing Tutor at Pegasus Theatre, Oxford, working with the Youth Theatre Companies. Her next collection, Taking Mesopotamia, is forthcoming in March 2014.