Jane Roper is the author of the novels The Society of Shame—a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor—and Eden Lake, as well as a memoir, Double Time: How I Survived–and Mostly Thrived–Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins. Her essays and humor have appeared in Salon, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Millions, Poets & Writers, LitHub, NPR, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Jane is originally from Fairfield, Connecticut and currently lives just north of Boston with her husband, rad teenage twins, and two cats, one of whom sucks.
