Jane Monson lives in Cambridge as an independent scholar and Specialist Mentor for disabled students at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD was on the prose poetry of Francis Ponge and she has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Jane is the editor of This Line is Not for Turning (2011), an anthology of contemporary British prose poetry; and, more recently, British Prose Poetry: The Poems Without Lines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Her poetry collections with Cinnamon Press include Speaking Without Tongues (2010) and The Shared Surface (2013). The Chalk Butterfly is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press in 2022.