Jane Ciabattari is the author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire. Her stories have been published in Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story, New Flash Fiction Review, Long Island Noir,The Best Underground Fiction, and many other publications, and received three Pushcart Prize special mentions, O.Henry and National Magazine nominations, and an Editors' Choice Award. She writes a column for The Literary Hub and has contributed cultural criticism to NPR, BBC Culture, The New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Paris Review, The Guardian and many other publications. She is a former president and currently vice president/events of the National Book Critics Circle, on the advisory board of The Story Prize, the Bay Area Book Festival and Lit Camp, and is a Pushcart Prize contributing editor and a co-founder of the Flash Fiction Collective, a San Francisco Bay Area reading series.