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.) I also write Baby Squared, a narrative blog about my adventures in twin parenting, at Babble.com.
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. My memoir, Baby Squared, will be published by
St. Martin's Press in 2012.
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.
The brief, professional version:
Jane Roper is the author of Baby Squared, a narrative blog for Babble.com —
the third most-visited parenting site on the Web. 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 daughters.
