Jane Ciabattari is the author of two critically acclaimed short story collections: California Tales and Stealing the Fire. Her short stories have been published in Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tale from 100WordStory, A Book on the Table, and New Flash Fiction Review, among others. Redbook even nominated her for a National Magazine Award. Her stories Payback Time, earned a Pushcart Prize "special mention," and How I Left Onandaga County, appears in the anthology The Best Underground Fiction and also was a Pushcart Prize special mention, as was her story Mama Godot.
Ciabattari has been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was Life of Letters Lecturer at Bennington's Graduate Writing Seminars, fiction writer-in-residence at Chautauqua's Writers' Center, and has taught at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, as well as at numerous writers' conferences, including the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, the Taos Summer Writers Conference, and Lit Camp in Calistoga, CA.
She writes the global Between the Lines book column for BBC Culture and a weekly column for The Literary Hub, and is a regular contributor to NPR. Her book reviews and cultural criticism have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Bookforum, The Daily Beast, Salon, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, and more.
Ciabattari was born and raised in Emporia, Kansas. She began her writing career as a high school columnist for The Emporia Gazette and went on to study creative writing at Stanford University (B.A.) and San Francisco State University (M.A.). She divides her time between Brooklyn, NY and Sonoma County, CA with her husband Mark, who is also a writer.
Portrait by Sylvie Rosokoff
