Trees in the Field
J. E. Knowles was born in Tennessee and first published in Arizona at the age of seventeen. She then went to the University of Chicago, where she earned a B.A. Her work appeared in Chicago Poet and the Chicago Literary Review, and she was a member of the Grey City Journal Editorial Collective. In 1992 she went to Oxford and fell in love. She kept going back until the University awarded her a Diploma in Jewish Studies. She emigrated to Canada in 2000 and has long advocated U.S. federal recognition of same-sex relationships. She currently lives in London. Her first novel, Arusha, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.