Jasper Kent was born in Worcestershire, England in 1968. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, specialising in physics.
Jasper has spent over twenty years working as a software consultant and trainer in the UK and Europe, whilst also working on writing both fiction and music. In that time, he has written the Danilov Quintet, comprised of the novels Twelve, Thirteen Years Later, The Third Section, The People's Will and The Last Rite. In addition he has produced the short stories The Sergeant and the General, Ben and The Tangled Web, the play Beside the Kitchen Table as well as co-writing several musicals, including Writer's Cramp, Malvolio's Revenge, The Promised Land and Remember! Remember!
He lives in Brighton (well, Hove, actually) with a dog called Ace.