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After a tricky start with a bit of dyslexia and synthesesia Jane fell in love with reading and writing, and these have been her chief preocupations since she was in her teens. She now teaches creative writing at Macquarie University, and loves her work. In previous lives she's worked for a video production company, as a volunteer radio announcer, sold the Sun and the Mirror at Wynyard station on the street, picked fruit, packed in a factory, waitressed - all the (legal) things that aspiring young writers do. PROVENANCE is not autobiographical, but began with a sensual memory of Melbourne from Jane's childhood years there, and a fascination with questions about love, lies, India, long hair, mothering, art and science. She has a new novel underway, called 'The Happiness Project', a contemporary story set in Sydney; and a short story in production with the ABC's Radio National for broadcast in February 2007. Jane Messer: lives in Sydney with her husband and two children.
