Jane Borodale
Jane Borodale is a fiction writer. Her first novel The Book of Fires, about 18th-century illegitimacy and the development of colour in early fireworks, was shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers. Her second novel The Knot draws on the life of a forgotten 16th-century botanist. She was Leverhulme Writer in Residence at the Weald and Downland Museum in Sussex, and has written narrative installations for the Dartington Hall Trust, the Foundling Museum and the Wordsworth Trust. She has an MA in Site-Specific Sculpture from Wimbledon School of Art, and is a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London.