Jane Lebak wrote her first book at age three, in magenta crayon, on green-bar computer paper. Her writing has improved since 1975, but the passion remains.

Jane's first accepted novel was signed by Thomas Nelson in 1993 when she was 20 years old, enrolled in the English and Religious Studies programs at Cornell University. The Guardian, a fantasy about angels, was published under the name Jane Hamilton the next year when she was enrolled in an MA writing program at SUNY Brockport. It sold 23,000 copies plus 5,000 copies of a Crossings Book Club edition, before being declared out of print.

Jane got married in 1995 and delayed her publication goals to begin her family, but she never stopped writing. She has had short fiction published in Catfantastic IV, Dragons, Knights and Angels, The Sword Review, and Liguorian Magazine, among others, and nonfiction published in Chicken Soup For The Cat Lover's Soul, Holding Hands With God, Byline, Celebrate Life Magazine, Mothering Magazine, and several more. Numerous humor pieces have appeared in The Wittenburg Door and in The Compleat Mother. Although Thomas Nelson insisted she change her maiden name, she now publishes under her married name.

Beginning in January, 2008, Jane's novel Seven Archangels: Annihilation will be serialized in The Sword Review while at the same time being published by Double-Edged Publishing "for the impatient."

Jane and her husband James have had three living children, meaning her time-management skills are about as good as they're going to get, so she is writing and publishing regularly again. Their fourth baby was diagnosed during a "routine" ultrasound with a fatal birth defect. They carried that baby to term despite doctors' pressure to abort, and Emily lived for two hours. Jane used those experiences to create the Carrying To Term website, an online guide for parents who are coping with a fatal diagnosis for their unborn baby. Jane also moderates a pro-life anencephaly support group.

In addition to writing, Jane knits badly-made hats and scarves and tortures a violin that really did nothing whatsoever to deserve that agony.

Right now you're thinking, this would be a great place to put a photograph. So is Jane. Eventually, she'll have one up. Really.

Jane Lebak belongs to the Nashua Wordsmiths Christian Writers Group and the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. She has volunteered with Birthright, her children's schools, and with her church's youth group, choir, and Mothers-and-Others group, but not all at the same time.