A third generation Australian, Jennifer Rogers graduated in 1967 with an Arts degree from the University of Western Australia. In 1968 she travelled to and worked in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and New York as a reporter, columnist and an information officer with the United Nations. Rogers moved to England in 1972 where she continued to work as a reporter and sub-editor.
After her marriage, she moved with her family, in 1982, to West Africa, where she worked as a teacher at an international school at Kaduna, Northern Nigeria. She returned to Perth in 1985 and worked for the Sunday Times as a columnist, film reviewer and sub-editor and later moved back to England.
