Jenni Mills was born in Birmingham on 8th March 1951. She has never been much good at getting up in the morning, so she has had to have lots of different jobs in the hope that nobody would notice this. Mostly, apart from a short spell as a waitress, she has worked in broadcasting. She has presented and produced many programmes for BBC Radio 4, including You and Yours,Woman's Hour, Never the Same Again, and Famous for Fifteen Minutes, and directed TV documentaries for both the BBC and ITV, as well as teaching voice techniques to broadcasters. She gained a distinction in her MA in Creating Writing at Bath Spa University, where she now tutors.