Jane Urquhart was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario and educated in Toronto and Guelph. She has had three books of poetry, one collection of short fiction, and two novels published. Her novels are also published in the U.S., the U.K., and France. She has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa, Memorial University, and the University of Toronto (1997). Her fourth novel was published in Autumn, 1997.