Jane was born Linda Jane Waterman in 1966 in England - the fourth of five children. In late 1968, she emigrated with her family to Australia. Considered a quiet child, Jane could entertain herself for hours with jigsaw puzzles, lego, and reading. She started school at 4½ years, and quickly took delight in forming words into sentences. She gave her first public performance of her writing in grade four, by reading a ghost story to the school assembly.

Jane excelled in English at school, sometimes earning expressions of disbelief that she had written her own compositions. She developed a love for science fiction that led her to write five drafts of a sci-fi novel between the ages of 14 to 19. Her family became concerned that Jane's writing was a distraction from the goals of becoming an adult, and surviving in the world. At the same time, her family experienced heavy pressures that caused Jane's school work to suffer. Although she had placed first in grade ten, her parents blamed her increasing failure on science fiction and began to stridently argue against her interest in it, including writing.

Jane entered university in 1984, beginning a solitary time, during which major depression took root. She eventually took her family's disapproval to heart, writing very little for several years. In 1987, she met her first husband, and in 1988 she graduated from the University of New South Wales with an honours degree in pure physics. From 1987 to 1999, Jane pursued careers as a research assistant in astrophysics, solar-terrestrial physics, meteorology and oceanic/climate modelling.

However, this period of productivity was overshadowed by major physical and mental health challenges including autoimmune disease and major depression. Throughout this decade of illness, Jane began to write again. Starting with poetry and brief vignettes that she self-consciously called "rambles", she moved on to write a series of short stories that dealt with themes of isolation and loss.

In late 1997, Jane met her soul mate, Carmen, on the internet. She moved to Canada in August 1999, determined to start a new life with her new family as well as pursue her dream of a PhD in her chosen speciality of ocean science. The worsening of several of her invisible disabilities, forced her to withdraw from her PhD in 2005. She remains happily married to Carmen (thanks to Canadian laws that recognize marriage is about love, not gender), and is a proud mum to two daughters, aged 17 and 21.

In late 2005, Jane adopted the use of her middle name in everyday life. This is part of a deeply personal and powerful determination to free herself from the history that held her back, to continue to evolve in inner resources, and to celebrate the writer that made her first tentative steps into the world at fourteen, over twenty-five years ago. Today, the name Jane is recognition and reward for transcending a difficult past, owning her creative self, and embracing the future as the writer she was always meant to be.