Jane Ciabattari’s reviews, interviews, and cultural reporting have appeared in Bookforum, The Guardian online, NPR.org, Salon.com, The Paris Review, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, O the Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, and The East Hampton Star, among others. She is vice president/online and former president of the National Book Critics Circle and author of the short-story collection Stealing the Fire. Recent short stories are online at The Literarian, KGB Bar Lit, Verbsap, Literary Mama, and Lost Magazine, and forthcoming in spring 2012 in Long Island Noir, edited by Kaylie Jones.