Jane Ciabattari is a Literary Hub columnist and regular contributor for BBC.com. Her articles, book reviews, and cultural reporting have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Bookforum, NPR.org, The Daily Beast, Salon.com, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, Ms., Poets & Writers Magazine, The East Hampton Star, Kirkus Reviews, among others.
She served as president of the National Book Critics Circle from 2008 to 2011 and as NBCC Vice President/Online in charge of the Critical Mass blog and social networking (she helped found Critical Mass in April 2006) and later as Vice President/Events and 50th anniversary co-chair. She currently serves on the NBCC Advisory Board. She also has been a VP and on the board of the Overseas Press Club, and is former board chair of Women's eNews, the daily online news service and a past president of the Women's Media Group. She is on the advisory board ot The Story Prize, the Bay Area Book Festival, and Litcamp, a member of the Writers' Grotto, Page Street, and a co-founder of the Flash Fiction Collective, a San Francisco-based reading series.
She is the author of Stealing the Fire: Stories, an Iowa Short Fiction finalist selected for the Dzanc rEprint series. Her short stories have been awarded three Pushcart Prize special mentions, an East Hampton Shorts award for originality, widely published and anthologized.
