Jane O'Connor

Jane O'Connor is a writer and academic based in the West Midlands, UK. Her debut novel, Needlemouse, was selected as the runner-up for the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize. Her short stories have been published in national magazines, and she was the winner of the 2020 Hysteria short story competition. Jane's latest novel, The Trial of Gwen Foley, is set in eighteenth-century Lichfield and features two of her greatest interests—bookshops and the history of witchcraft. Jane lives in Birmingham with her husband, two boys, and two cats.