Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (中川ジェーン), born in 1960, is an avant-garde, expatriate American poet and essayist who resides in Japan.
Her work is archived in the University of Chicago library's special collection of poetry from Japan.
She worked as associate professor at a national teacher training university, Aichi University of Education, until the spring of 2012, where she taught courses in American and British poetry, comparative poetry, gender studies, American history and pedagogy.
A vegan and an advocate of women's and animal rights, she has stated "Activism runs through what I read and what I write and what I'm teaching.
"[8] Her tenth full-length collection, Plan B Audio, which includes photography by Susan Laura Sullivan, addresses cancer, the female body and other subjects; her treatment of these issues is discussed in reviews of this work in Tears in the Fence,[9] The Long Poem Magazine,[10] and Wordgathering.