Jane Kirkpatrick

Jane Kirkpatrick

Jane Kirkpatrick writes lyrically about the Western way of life in her historically-based novels.

Jane Kirkpatrick is an historical novelist, speaker and teacher who makes her home in Moro, Oregon - her address is on Starvation Lane - and is a familiar name to many Central Oregonians Jane will receive the 2009 Caldera Special Recognition Award, funded by Dan and Bonnie Wieden, for her body of work. Jane has written 14 novels and three non-fiction books. Her titles have been finalists for the Oregon Book Award, the Spur Award from Western Writers, and Reader's Choice. In 2008, A Tendering in the Storm won the WILLA Literary Award for best original paperback novel. A Sweetness to the Soul won the Wrangler Award for outstanding Western novel of 1995, a story inspired by a fifty-year old essay a Depression-era schoolboy wrote about his distant ancestors - the Sherars. Jane worked in the disabilities field, became the director of the mental health program in Deschutes County, Oregon and eventually "retired" from there to homestead and begin a new adventure in writing, working on the reservation, growing watermelons, and attempting to grow grapes, alfalfa and cattle. She worked for seventeen years as a mental health and educational consultant on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Central Oregon with both Native American and non-Indian communities. Her award-winning essays, articles, and humor have appeared in over fifty publications. Kirkpatrick’s latest novel, A Flickering Light, was published in April 2009.

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