Liz Jensen was born in
Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and a mother whose family were Moroccan Jews. She studied English at
Somerville College, Oxford. She first worked as a print and radio journalist in Hong Kong and Taiwan. She then spent four years as a sculptor, translator and freelance writer in France, where she wrote her first novel,
Egg Dancing (1995). She then returned to London to write
Ark Baby (1998),
The Paper Eater (2000), and
War Crimes for the Home (2002). While living in the UK, Jensen also spent ten years working as a television and radio producer for the
BBC. She is also a founder member of
Extinction Rebellion's Writers Rebel. Her fifth novel was adapted into a film version,
The 9th Life of Louis Drax, by
Alexandre Aja in 2016. Her 2009 novel,
The Rapture, is to be adapted into a five-part
BBC One drama series starring
Ruth Madeley. == Personal life ==