Jane Howard is a Walkley award-winning journalist. She is currently editor of arts and culture at The Conversation, and sits on the board of Writers SA.
As a freelance journalist and critic, Jane is a regular contributor to Guardian Australia, who she has written for across Australia and in Asia. She has had writing commissioned in England, Scotland, Canada, and the Czech Republic; been translated into multiple languages; and appeared in publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, RealTime, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, Crikey, Junkee, The Stage, and Kill Your Darlings where she was contributing editor.
Jane’s artistic work explores writing in collaborative digital spaces; and her research work has primarily looked at the status of women in the arts. Her report, How Australian theatre rebalanced its gender disparity, published by the ABC, won the Arts Journalism Prize at the 2019 Mid-Year Walkley Awards.
She is currently writing her first book.