Jayne Starwing is a reformed journalist and English Literature grad school survivor who barely got out with her obsession with Tolkien intact. Following stints in a few North American cities, she now writes from the Atlantic Canada province of New Brunswick where she lives with her academic partner and half-fae child. In addition to her speculative and fantasy work, she authors contemporary humorous Women’s Fiction as Olivia M. Jacques. Jayne is mixed-race and neurodivergent and often explores these and other social subjects that have affected her life through her characters, particularly when writing as Olivia. She enjoys collecting and is forever bringing home feathers, fossils, and fungi, to her partner’s dismay and her daughter’s delight. As Jayne, she is still seeking the second star to the right, and is determined to never grow up, though it is said that never is an awfully long time.