Jane Harrington’s career in the literary arts has spanned more than two decades. She has published books for the youth market (Scholastic, Lerner) and currently crafts literary fiction and creative nonfiction. Journals and anthologies showcasing her work include Chautauqua, Feminine Collective, Irish America, New Square, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene, and others. Her writing has been short-listed for prizes both nationally and internationally, and her novel In Circling Flight was awarded the 2019 Brighthorse Prize and was longlisted for the Crook's Corner Book Prize in 2023. Jane is a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) and teaches writing craft and literature at W&L University and in the graduate program at Hollins University. Her newest book, Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun (Black Dog & Leventhal) will be published in August 2025.