Jane Gregory was rights director at Chatto & Windus at the time of the founding of WiP. She set up her own literary agency, Gregory & Company, in 1987 and in 2018 this agency became part of David Higham Associates. Jane is a co-founder of WiP, sat on the main and advisory committees and taught on its training programmes. She is the co-founder of The Women’s Prize for Fiction (formally the Orange Prize) and the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate.