Jane Ciabattari

Jane Ciabattari is an award-winning widely published short story author; her collection Stealing the Fire was an Iowa Short Fiction finalist selected for the Dzanc Books Reprint Series. She serves on the advisory board of The Story Prize, on the program steering committee of the Bay Area Book Festival and Lit Camp, and as a contributing editor to the Pushcart Prize. She is a member of the Writers Grotto and a co-founder of the Flash Fiction Collective, a San Francisco reading series. She is a former National Book Critics Circle president (and current vice president/events), a columnist for Lit Hub, published by BBC Culture, NPR, the New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, and many other publications.