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 US and Canada. Her work is anthologized in “You Look Good For Your Age” (Rona Altrows Ed.), “(M)Othering” (Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan Eds.) and “Waiting,” (Rona Altrows and Julie Sedivy Eds.,) among other titles. In 2011, she was a finalist for the Alberta Writers’ Guild’s Short Story Award for “Weight,” which originally appeared in “FreeFall Magazine.” 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 Cliche,” about her experience with Hodgkins Lymphoma was shortlisted for the same contest in 2007. She earned an MFA from the Solstice MFA program in Boston, MA in 2016.