Jane Byers

Jane Byers is a writer and poet based in Nelson, British Columbia, who writes about resilience in raising children, lesbian and gay issues, sexism, local geography, and workplace health and safety. She has spent about 25 years facilitating resilience in injured workers and preventing workplace injuries. Her most recent book is the memoir Small Courage: A Queer Memoir of Finding Love and Conceiving Family, and she has also published two poetry collections and a chapbook. Her work has appeared in Grain, Rattle, Descant, The Antigonish Review, and other Canadian, US, and UK venues. Byers was a resident at The Narrows Art Retreat in 2022, part of a Nelson and District Arts Council-sponsored residency. The Narrows and the arts council list her as a past literary-arts recipient.