Jane Ormerod is the author of Welcome to the Museum of Cattle (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Jane’s work also appears in numerous US and international anthologies and journals including The Sparring Artists (Sparring with Beatnik Ghost, 2023), From the Inside: NYC through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here (Blue Light Press, 2022), From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream, FLAPPERHOUSE, Sensitive Skin, Have a Nice NYC, Maintenant, POST(stranger), POST(blank), Breadline, AND / OR, Marsh Hawk Press Review, The Nervous Breakdown, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England, Jane now splits her time between New York City and Hudson, NY. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA, an independent press focusing on edgy and experimental poetry and prose. She is the recipient of a 2020 NYC Acker Award in publishing for her contribution to the avant-garde community.

Jane has recently returned to painting and took part in the 2022 and 2023 Hudson Open Studios. Her work was exhibited in “A Kind of Magic: The Art of Transforming” at Gallery 40, Poughkeepsie, NY (Dec 3, 2022 - Jan 28, 2023), and “Small Works by Strangers” at Super Secret Projects, Beacon, NY (August 12 - August 25, 2023). Her work is included in the “Silver & Gold” group show at Circle 46 Gallery, Hudson, NY (December 2, 2023 - January 28, 2024).

Together with John K Lawson, Jane hosts and curates the literary and performance monthly series “A Galère of Poetic Autopsies” at the historic Park Theater in Hudson, NY.

Photographs by Peter Darrell, Jay Franco, Michael Geffner, Kat Georges, and Shell Sheddy