Janis Rapoport lives and works in Toronto and in Cusco, Peru. She was educated in Canada and Switzerland and has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. She has worked as a magazine and book editor in London, England, and in Toronto as a literary and television editor, as well as a Creative Writing Instructor at the University of Toronto. Rapoport has been Writer-in-Residence for the Toronto Board of Education as well as for several Ontario libraries. In addition to plays, Rapoport writes poetry and creative non-fiction. Her work has been published in translation in France, Peru and Japan.