Jane Zimmerman

Jane Zimmerman taught in Nevada for two decades and obtained an MA in curriculum and instruction before moving to Washington, DC. There, Zimmerman taught at George Washington University, pursued a PhD she decided not to complete, and worked as the program manager for the Urban Initiative, a project designed to address the early burnout of urban teachers.

In 2001 Zimmerman began working for the Peace Corps as a programming and training officer in Bangladesh, Mongolia, and China. In 2006 she joined the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for a higher education project in Afghanistan. During her six-and-a-half years in Afghanistan, she also worked on a community-based education project with the International Rescue Committee. Before retiring from development work, she served in Liberia, working on a teacher-training project.

Zimmerman lives in the Pacific Northwest and writes full-time.