Jan Millsapps (born February 26, 1950 in Concord, North Carolina) is an American digital filmmaker, fiction writer, and Professor Emerita in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University.

[1] She has produced films, videos and interactive cinema on subjects ranging from domestic violence to global terrorism, and has published in traditional print and online venues.

[5] Her second novel, Venus on Mars, was published in 2014; one character in this book is based on the astronomer Wrexie Leonard, who was Percival Lowell's assistant.

In 2021 she was invited as keynote speaker at the Universidade Federal das Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (Brazil)'s Seminar on Space & Extreme Environment Research and in 2022 she gave a plenary presentation at the 2022 Mars Society Convention.

[24] Pleasure Island, a live web performance co-produced in 1999 with Randall Packer, was presented at USC's Interactive Frictions[25] conference on new media theory and practice.

Her early web work was cited in a 1995 book, Film and Video on the Internet: The Top 500 Sites, and in the Journal of the Writers Guild of America.

Her scholarly, political and personal essays have appeared in the journal Film Literature Quarterly[26] in the book International Film, Television and Radio Journals, in the San Francisco Chronicle, in the San Francisco Examiner, on The New York Times wire service, and in the inaugural issue of Sinister Wisdom.

[29] She was invited to present her ideas on writing and reading at the 2013 "Futures of the Book" event, sponsored by Transmedia SF and Swissnex.