Jane Mellor was born and raised in San Francisco during the counterculture generation, and at the age of nineteen, moved to Canada and settled in the backwoods of rural British Columbia. When she wasn't splitting firewood, canning preserves on her wood stove, or warding off bears, Jane was writing childrens books. After she and her three offspring moved to Vancouver, Jane worked as a creative set-stylist and writer for lifestyle and travel magazines, and traveled extensively. Her literary work has been published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, The Toronto Quarterly, TWS website, emerge Anthology, Leaf Press, Contemporary Horizons Magazine, and Contemporary Horizons Anthology. A graduate from Simon Fraser University's The Writer's Studio, Jane now lives in Sausalito, California, where she enjoys the lack of rain, and continues to write like a mad woman. This is her first book of poetry.