Varley, Jane

Jane Varley was born in 1965 in Dubuque, Iowa. She has studied English at the University of Idaho (Bachelors in 1986, Masters in 1990) and the University of North Dakota (Ph.D. in 1998), and is now an associate professor in the English Department at Muskingum University, New Concord, Ohio, where she teaches creative writing and literature.

Jane has published a number of poems, essays, and reviews in literary journals, and is the author of Flood Stage and Rising, a book published by the University of Nebraska Press (2005) describing the catastrophic flooding of Grand Forks, North Dakota, in