Jane Ciabattari
Jane Ciabattari, author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire (Dzanc Books rEprint Series, Iowa Short Fiction finalist), has published fiction in Big Other, Lit Hub, New Flash Fiction Review, Literary Mama, Verbsap, Chautauqua, Ms., The North American Review, and Denver Quarterly, among others. Her short stories have been honored with three Pushcart Prize special mentions, an Editor’s Choice award from Hampton Shorts, nominated for National Magazine awards, and anthologized in Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story,Long Island Noir, and The Best Underground Fiction. She is a former National Book Critics Circle president and longtime VP/events. She studied creative writing at Stanford University and San Francisco State University (M.A, English/creative writing). She has been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is on advisory boards of The Story Prize, Litcamp, the Bay Area Book Festival, is a Pushcart Prize contributing editor, a member of The Writers Grotto and Page Street, a co-founder of the San Francisco-based Flash Fiction Collective.
