Jane Saginaw is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a law degree from the University of Texas, Austin and a PhD in Literature from The University of Texas, Dallas. She is the author of Because the World is Round (Deep Vellum, 2022), a memoir about an around-the-world family trip in 1970 with her mother who used a wheelchair because of polio paralysis. Her poetry chapbook, NOT I, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2027. Jane was a trial lawyer in Dallas with Baron & Budd and served, under Clinton, as a Regional Administrator of the EPA. In 2006, she was awarded Trail Lawyer of the Year by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice for her environmental work. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Athenaeum Review, Image Journal, D Magazine, Paper Brigade Daily and Beyond Words Magazine.