Jane Ciabattari,
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Email 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, a columnist for Lit Hub, and has contributed to BBC Culture, NPR, the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Bookforum, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, Poets & Writers Magazine and Alta.
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, and She serves on the advisory board of The Story Prize, on the program steering committee of the Bay Area Book Festival and Lit Camp, as a contributing editor to the Pushcart Prize; she is a member of the Writers Grotto and a founder of the Flash Fiction Collective, a San Francisco reading series. Her term ends in 2023.