The brief, professional version:
Jane Roper is the author of Eden Lake, a novel. Double Time, her memoir of parenting twins and dealing with clinical depression will be published in 2012. She also writes a blog, “Baby Squared” about her adventures in parenting. Jane received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and her BA from Williams College. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and twin daughters.

The casual, long-winded version:
I was born and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, and spent the first 15 summers of my life in Maine, where my parents worked at and ran various summer camp programs. I attended Williams College, where I got an irrelevant but interesting degree in Anthropology.

After college, via a rather circuitous path, I settled into a career as an advertising copywriter (much to my own surprise) and began writing fiction and essays before and after hours. From 2002-2004, I attended the Iowa Writers Workshop, where I received my MFA in fiction writing.

Since then, I’ve returned to advertising and continue to write fiction and nonfiction whenever I can. (This has admittedly become more challenging since the birth of my twin daughters in December, 2006.)

My writing has appeared in such publications as Poets & Writers, Salon, Slate and The Rumpus. My first novel, Eden Lake, will be published by Last Light Studio in Spring 2011. Double Time, my memoir of parenting twins and dealing with clinical depression will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2012. My blog on the same topics is Baby Squared.

My husband is singer/songwriter Alastair Moock, and we live with our girls just outside of Boston. When I am not working, writing, mothering, grocery shopping, cooking or checking email, I can be found trying to read and promptly falling asleep.