
One of these short pieces was about a farmer-poet and a girl he acquires songs from. It was there that she began her first novel, structured as a set of short stories. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and then became writer-in-residence in Durham prison. By this time, I had moved back to Scotland, having decided that I wanted to be a writer." I kept writing these stories and they were getting published in anthologies and magazines. I had such a great time writing that story that I immediately wrote another one, about another ex-boyfriend all my early stories were about ex-boyfriends. It was about an ex-boyfriend who happened to be a transvestite. And so, just to amuse myself, I started writing a short story. She says, "I had no TV, hardly any books, no money. She started writing by accident while living in Portugal in the early Nineties.

In 2000, she received a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England. Her short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and she has written several award-winning short films. Jane Harris was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and raised in Glasgow. There is more than one author with this name in the GR database
