Photo credit: John MidgleyJane Ciabattari
Jane Ciabattari’s illustrious career began as a high school newspaper columnist in Kansas. Now, she is a columnist for BBC Culture and Literary Hub and has contributed cultural criticism to The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Paris Review, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, and many other publications. She is the former president and current vice president/online of the National Book Critics Circle, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. She is the author of two short story collections, “California Tales” and “Stealing the Fire.”
