Jane Ciabattari is the author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire, an Iowa Short Fiction finalist selected for the Dzanc Books rEprint Series. She is a former NBCC president, current NBCC co-vice president/events, a columnist for Lit Hub, and has contributed to BBC Culture, NPR, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, Poets & Writers Magazine and Alta, among others. She was Life of Letters Lecturer at Bennington's Graduate Writing Seminars, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Knox College, and fiction writer-in-residence at Chautauqua's Writers' Center. She serves on the advisory board of The Story Prize and Lit Camp, as a contributing editor to the Pushcart Prize; she is a member of Page Street and the Writers Grotto.