Jane Christmas | |
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Born | Jane Elizabeth Grimshaw 22 January 1954 Hamilton, Ontario |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Canadian |
Education | Bachelor of Arts |
Alma mater | Carleton University, Ottawa |
Period | 1990s-present |
Notable works | And Then There Were Nuns; What the Psychic told the Pilgrim; Open House: A Life in Thirty Two Moves |
Jane Christmas (born 1954) is a Canadian writer from Hamilton, currently based in the UK,[1] who was twice a nominee for the Stephen Leacock Award.
Christmas was born and raised in Toronto, but spent much of her life in Hamilton, Ontario.[2]
Christmas had a career as a newspaper editor and journalist, and later as a public relations manager in the public sector, before devoting her time exclusively to writing.[1]
She was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2014 for And Then There Were Nuns,[3] which chronicles a year she spent in various convents while deciding whether to marry for a third time or to take up a vocation as an Anglican nun.;[1] and was long-listed for the same award in 2021 for Open House: A Life in Thirty Two Moves.[4]
She has published five books of what has been categorized as travel writing but of which she prefers to call journey memoir. She was co-author of A Journey Just Begun (2015) with the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine in Toronto.
Christmas is a founding member of the Hamilton Civic League, and she remained in the city for more than 20 years. She currently lives in England.[9]
In 2011, she was accepted as an associate with the Canadian Anglican religious community, the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine.[10]