Jane Ciabattari is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection Stealing the Fire. Her short stories have been published in Nothing Short of 100 (an anthology from 100 Word Story), A Book on the Table (flash anthology commissioned for Independent Bookstore Day 2018), New Flash Fiction Review, Long Island Noir, The Literarian, KBG Bar Lit, LOST magazine, Chautauqua magazine, Literary Mama, VerbSap, Ms. Magazine (nominated for O.Henry and Pushcart awards), The North American Review, Denver Quarterly, Hampton Shorts (which honored her with an Editors’ Choice Award), The East Hampton Star, Blueline, Caprice, and Redbook, which nominated her for a National Magazine Award. Ciabattari was born and raised in Emporia, Kansas. She began her writing career as a high school columnist for The Emporia Gazette. She studied creative writing at Stanford University (BA) and San Francisco State University (MA). With her husband Mark, who also is a writer, she divides her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Sonoma County, California. Website: http://www.janeciabattari.com Buy Stealing the Fire:http://www.dzancbooks.org/reprint-ser... Buy California Tales: