Jane Cawthorne

Jane Cawthorne's work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and academic journals. In 2011, she was a finalist for the Alberta Writers Guild, Howard O-Hagan Short Fiction Award for her story "Weight." Her essay "Something as Big as a Mountain" was first runner-up in the PRISM International Creative Non-Fiction Contest in 2012, and another essay, "The Cure for a Cancer Cliché," was shortlisted for the same contest in 2007. Her play The Abortion Monologues has been produced many times in the United States and Canada. Currently, Jane is completing an MFA in creative writing in Boston in the Solstice Program at Pine Manor College and finishing a novel.