Jane M. Lindskold (born September 15, 1962) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels.

Jane received a Ph.D. in English from Fordham, concentrating on Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern British Literature.

In her Athanor series, she writes about the creatures of legend — shape-shifters, satyrs, merfolk, and unicorns — who have sworn to keep their existence hidden from a human race prone to kill what it does not understand.

"[2] Terri Windling called Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls "a complex, utterly original work of speculative fiction.

(Novellas all, published only as e-books) David Weber was the sole author of the first book, A Beautiful Friendship