is a writer, researcher and story teller, and is the author of The Lives of Older Lesbians: Sexuality, Identity and the Life Course (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She continues to collect the memories of women born before 1950 who identify as lesbian or bisexual, and her best-selling second book, Now You See Me (Tollington Press, 2018), is a collection of some of these older women’s life-stories. Jane and some of her interviewees appeared in the short films Now You See Me (Esme Waldron, 2016) and Older Than What? (Steen Starr, 2017). In 2017, she began to work with the Lesbian Immigration Support group in Manchester. Her recent book, Free To Be Me (Tollington Press 2021), is a collection of life-stories told by women who have sought asylum in the UK because of homophobic persecution. Profits from sales of this book help to support lesbian refugees.

is a writer, researcher and story teller, and is the author of The Lives of Older Lesbians: Sexuality, Identity and the Life Course (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She continues to collect the memories of women born before 1950 who identify as lesbian or bisexual, and her best-selling second book, Now You See Me (Tollington Press, 2018), is a collection of some of these older women’s life-stories. Jane and some of her interviewees appeared in the short films Now You See Me (Esme Waldron, 2016) and Older Than What? (Steen Starr, 2017). In 2017, she began to work with the Lesbian Immigration Support group in Manchester. Her recent book, Free To Be Me (Tollington Press 2021), is a collection of life-stories told by women who have sought asylum in the UK because of homophobic persecution. Profits from sales of this book help to support lesbian refugees.