Jennifer Kavanagh worked in publishing for nearly thirty years, the last fourteen as an independent literary agent. In the past twenty years she has run a community centre in London’s East End, worked with street homeless people and refugees, and set up microcredit programmes in London, and in Africa. She has also worked as a research associate for the Prison Reform Trust.
Jennifer now spends most of her time writing, speaking, and running retreats. She has published twelve books of non-fiction and three novels. She is an associate tutor at Woodbrooke Quaker study centre, a Churchill Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of a community of fools.
“Write in the way that suits you and the material. Let go of preconceptions. Let the characters lead you.”
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