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Until age eight, Markham was home-schooled. She then attended Burgess Hill boarding school in Hampstead, followed by Town and Country school in Swiss Cottage, and then Camden School for Girls. Markham went studied at the Central School of Art.
Her plays with songs for fringe theatre included One White Day, The Birth of Pleasure and Hermes, working with Orlando Gough and Pete Letanka. She wrote the libretto for several fringe musicals. Her children's opera On the Rim of the World was composed for the Royal Opera House. Her last community opera was performed at Leiston House in 1997 - she wrote the book and lyrics for The Six Swans, a musical adaptation of two fairy tales by Brothers Grimm, for the Wonderful Beast Theatre Company, and Hermes which was staged by the Rosemary Branch theatre in 2006.
As a poet, she published five collections, including Forty Poems (Dreams, Dances & Disappointments, 2022), and previously Thirty Poems (Rough Winds Productions, 2004), Twenty Poems (Rough Winds Productions, 1999), Ten Poems (Redstone Press, 1993), and The Captain's Death (Soul, 1974), as well as an audio collection My Mother Myself, with her mother the poet Olive Dehn (Rough Winds Productions, 2001).
Markham performed as part of the Jehane Markham Trio which she formed in 2004 and which performed for ten years, with pianist Robin Phillips and double bassist Graeme Howell, later replaced by double bassist Jonny Gee, and sometimes joined by cellist Natalie Rozario. They made two albums, The London Series and Vladivostok to Moscow and performed at poetry venues and arts festivals in London and across the country. She was poet in residence at Camden New Journal.
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