Jane Camens is working towards a PhD at Griffith University. She founded Hong Kong’s international literary festival in 2001 with Sri Lankan writer Nury Vittachi.

After completing an MFA in Writing at Vermont College in the USA, and receiving an MA at the University of East Anglia, UK, she returned to Australia and founded the Asia Pacific New Writing Partnership, an international collaboration of universities, literary organisations and others interested in supporting new writing from the region.

Jane won the 2010 Fish Publishing Short Story Prize.