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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.

2022 Festival events
- Short Stories: In Search of Belonging (In-Person and Live Streamed)
2019 Festival events
- Courage in Publishing in an Age of Political Polarization
- Critic’s Choice: Three Young 21st Century Writers Rocking the Literary World
2018 Festival events
- The Book Review: Top Reviewers Share How It’s Done
- Largesse of the Dark Angel
2017 Festival events
- The Legacy of Juan Rulfo: A Celebration
2016 Festival events
- Introducing “Freeman’s”: Reinventing the Literary Magazine for the New Century
- Jonathan Lethem & Dana Spiotta: A Conversation
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