Jane Routley
Jane Routley's books with Clan Destine Press include Mage Heart, Fire Angels and Aramaya as the eBook trilogy: The Dion Chronicles. Fire Angels and Aramaya won the 1998 and 1999 Aurealis Awards for Best Fantasy novels.
Jane has also written The Three Sisters as Rebecca Locksley, and writes under the pseudonym Soft Senta for the Church of the Immaculate Confection chocolate site.
Jane's short stories have been widely anthologised, appeared in Meanjin, and have been read on the ABC.
Her favorite writers are Jane Austen, Angela Carter, Sara Douglass, and Janet Evanovich and Jane's current life ambition is to see an erupting volcano. (Everyone at Clan Destine fervently hopes she means from a safe distance!)
Jane has had a variety of careers, including fruit picker and occult librarian and she lived in Germany and Denmark for a decade.
Jane Routley now lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she was born and went to Preshil, Strathcona, and Monash University where she studied history, and RMIT where she became a Librarian. Jane now works on the railways and lives in a garden full of birds.