Jane Cawthorne

Jane Cawthorne writes about women on the brink of transformation. Her first novel “Patterson House” (Inanna, 2022) is set in Toronto, the city in which she grew up. She is the co-editor of two anthologies with E.D. Morin--"Impact: Women Writing After Concussion," and "Writing Menopause." Her play, "The Abortion Monologues" has been produced many times in the United States and Canada and is available as an ebook on Amazon. Her work is anthologized in "You Look Good For Your Age" (Rona Altrows Ed.) and "(M)othering Anthology" (Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan Eds.). You can also find her work in the anthology "Waiting" (Rona Altrows & Julie Sedivy Eds.). In 2011, she was a finalist for the Alberta Writers’ Guild's Short Fiction Award for her story “Weight.” Her essay, “Something As Big As a Mountain” was a notable essay in “The Best American Essays 2013,” (Cheryl Strayed, Ed.) and was also first runner up in the 2012 PRISM International Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Her earlier essay, “The Cure for a Cancer Cliché” was shortlisted for the same contest in 2007. She earned an MFA from the Solstice MFA program in Boston, MA in 2016.