Jane Sanderson (born 17 August 1962 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire) is a British novelist.
Sanderson was educated at Kirk Balk School in Hoyland, and at Leicester University.
She was a newspaper journalist before joining the BBC, where she was a producer on The World At One, PM, and Woman's Hour.
Set in a Yorkshire pit village around the turn of the 20th century, and based in part on Sanderson's own family history, it has been widely acclaimed and is the first in a series.
Sanderson's fourth book, This Much Is True, is a contemporary family drama and not part of the Netherwood series.