Jane Eaton Hamilton

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Jane Eaton Hamilton is a Canadian short story writer, poet and photographer. She has published two books of poetry, Body Rain (Brick Books 1992) and Steam-Cleaning Love (Brick Books 1993) and two volumes of short fiction July Nights and Other Stories, (Douglas and McIntyre, 1991) and Hunger, (Oberon, 2001), and two other books (children's and nonfiction). Her books have been shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in the BC Book Prizes, the VanCity Award, the Pat Lowther Award, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the MIND Book Prize (UK) where a non-fiction title appeared on the Best Books of the Year wrap-up at the UK Guardian newspaper.

Her short work has appeared in such publications as En Route, the New York Times, Mcleans, and Seventeen. She has won many awards for her short work, including first prize in the CBC Literary Awards (2003), twice first prize in the Prism International Short Story Award, Canadian Poetry Chapbook of the Year from the League of Canadian Poets, the event Non-Fiction Award, and many others.

She and her wife, Vancouver doctor Joy Masuhara, were two of the litigants in the Canadian same-sex marriage case, and when they and their colleagues won their case after a several year battle, they were wed in Toronto on June 28, 2003 shortly after their tenth anniversary. They have two grown daughters, both Jane's biological children, who were adopted by Joy in 1997 when same sex adoptions became legal. Two movies with footage of Jane and Joy were made about their case, one by the NFB called "Why Thee Wed" and the other by Toronto filmmaker Nancy Nicol, called "The End of Second Class."

Jane Eaton Hamilton gave up writing January 1, 2004, six days before the CBC called to tell her she had taken first prize in the literary awards that had seen her as a finalist 20 plus years running. She now works as a photographer, shooting weddings, portraits, fine art and travel photographs, but keeps a very occasional hand in story writing.

Jane Eaton Hamilton is also a Master Gardener who writes the intermittent but popular column for You Grow Girl called 'The Adequate Gardener.' The garden she creates with her wife was nominated for Vancouver's Best Front Garden Award.