Overview
Hamilton 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, Macleans 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.
Work has recently appeared in Salon and numerocinqmagazine.com .
She was a litigant in the Canadian same-sex marriage case between 200-2003. Two movies were made about or involving the case, one by the NFB's Cal Garigan called "Why Thee Wed" and the other by Toronto filmmaker Nancy Nicol, called "The End of Second Class."
She spent several years as a photographer specializing in newborn photography, and for years volunteered for the organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep .
She has two grown daughters and one granddaughter.
Jane Eaton Hamilton is also a Master Gardener who writes the intermittent column for You Grow Girl called 'The Adequate Gardener.' The garden she created in east Vancouver was nominated for Vancouver's Best Front Garden Award.
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