Jane Yeh was born in America and educated at Harvard University.  She holds master’s degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Manchester Metropolitan University.  Her first full-length collection, Marabou, was published by Carcanet in 2005 and shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward, and Jerwood Aldeburgh poetry prizes.  Her chapbook, Teen Spies, was published in 2003 by Metre Editions. Her next collection, The Ninjas, is forthcoming from Carcanet this November.

Currently Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kingston University, she also teaches residential courses for Arvon and writes on books, theatre, fashion, and sport for publications including The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Time Out, and The Village Voice.  She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a residency at Yaddo.  She lives in London.

Image credit (left):  Foul Play. Copyright Jing Wei 2011.  All rights reserved.

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