Born and brought up on a hill farm in the north of England, she moved to London as a teenager in order to become a writer.
She read law and then English Literature as a mature student at university before specialising in early women writers - work that culminated in A Glorious Fame, the life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
Her biography of Katherine Mansfield called The Storyteller,[1] was published in New Zealand in August 2010 by Penguin and in the UK in December 2010 by Edinburgh University Press.
In 2013 she published a biography of Norman Nicholson - The Whispering Poet - with The Book Mill Press, and more recently, 'Travelling to the Edge of the World', an account of her journey through British Columbia to Haida Gwaii, looking at environmental issues.
Jones has published poetry, feature articles and short fiction in a variety of national and international magazines and newspapers.