After a nomadic childhood Clare Brant settled south of the north pole, in Oxford, where she lives with assorted beings including a poet's dog, a deerhound. She teachers in the English Department at King's College London, where she is a Senior Lecturer. Her academic publications include a big book on eighteenth-century letter-writing, Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture (Palgrave, 2006), three co-edited essay collections and numerous articles on literature, culture and gender.