Jane Woodham is a writer of long and short fiction, born in England and currently living in Dunedin, New Zealand.

In 2016 her first novel, Twister, published in 2015 by Rosa Mira Books, was shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh First Novel Crime Award. Twister received great reviews including A most impressive first novel, Graham Beattie, and Crime writing at its best, Paddy Richardson. The Ngaio Marsh Judges described it as tightly pace with a superb sense of setting and an emulsive blend of the immediate with the historical and emotional.

In 2016, she appeared at the Christchurch WORD festival, in the same year she took part in Murder in the Library in Dunedin, with Matt McGuire, Liam McIlvanney, Paddy Richardson and Vanda Symon.

Jane is a founder-member of the Dunedin Detection Society with Finn Bell, Liam McIlvanney, Karen Trebilcock, Vanda Symon and Paddy Richardson.

In 2017 she produced a fifteen-programme radio series  Charlie’s Angels; Twenty-Four Years of Writing Together, both of which she launched at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival in May 2017.

Jane’s short stories have been shortlisted for the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition, and published in the UK and New Zealand. During 2018-2019 she was Secretary and Acting Chair for the Otago/Southland branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors, for whom she hosted a local writing salon.

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