Eileen Jones has worked as an accountant, a secondary school teacher and a speech and drama teacher. She has PhD in psychophysiology. In 1994 she was involved in a traffic accident as a result of which she sustained significant brain damage. She began writing during her convalescence.
Sources: Five Bells vol.10 no.2 (Autumn 2003): 36; Ginninderra Press website, www.ginninderrapress.com.au (sighted 06/04/2011)