Jan Hill has a BA with Honours from Flinders University, a Diploma in Secondary Teaching and an unfinished law degree from the University of New England. She has worked as a Rehabilitation Counsellor and has lectured at Flinders University, the University of South Australia and the Charles Darwin University. She has set up two publishing houses, Flashback Press (1991-1996) and Two Hands Press (2002-).
Hill has written both under her own name and under the persona of Isobel Lacey. She uses her writing as a vehicle for social cause, based on her own personal experiences and those of others with whom she has come in contact, writing in both prose and verse, with compassion and humour.
In 2001 she worked with the Epenarra community to record the social history of the Epenarra community for the first time, in poetry and prose form. Her Unwashed - Two Cultures Together (2002, with Rosemary Plummer) is a selection of poems based on the Tennant Creek Area.
Other publications by Hill include Doctors of the Heart: Family Rehabilitation of Sudden Acute Illness (1991) and The Big Put-down : The Grief Behind the Language of Abuse (1992)
See Isobel Lacey record for biographical note on the pseudonymous identity.
