KATHLEEN JONES has published poetry, feature articles and short fiction in a variety of magazines including SHE, Cosmopolitan, Writing Women, Chapman, Outposts, Panurge and Tabla.   Her poetry, fiction and biography have won several national awards.
Her short stories have also been broadcast on Radio Four and on radio networks in  Holland, Germany and Spain.  Her most recent, prize-winning, collection of poetry `Unwritten Lives' was published by Redbeck Press in 1995 and a further collection `Secret Eden' was exhibited as part of a collaborative project for Visual Arts Year 97 with landscape photographer Tony Riley.

She is the author of four biographies.  A Glorious Fame;  the Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published by Bloomsbury in 987; Learning Not to be First: The life of Christina Rossetti, Oxford University Press  1991;  A Passionate Sisterhood, The Lives of the sisters, wives and daughters of the `lake poets', Constable (hardback) June 1997, Virago paperback in 1998, St Martin’s Press NY 2000.     Catherine Cookson; The Biography was published by Constable in May 1999 and was one of the UK’s top ten best-selling non fiction
books.   She has also published a series of books on Alternative Rites and Ceremonies of marriage, birth and death under the name Kate Gordon and is currently working on a biography of the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, a novel and has just published the story of the search for Catherine Cooksons Father