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Jane Nicholson
Jane Nicholson is a writer and educator. She is currently at work on a novel tentatively entitled, The Last Place, and various essays. Jane teaches restorative practices--a body of...view moreJane Nicholson is a writer and educator. She is currently at work on a novel tentatively entitled, The Last Place, and various essays. Jane teaches restorative practices--a body of communication and violence-prevention skills—to students and teachers in public schools and at universities.
Jane survives her husband, Dwight, who was murdered in his office at the University of Iowa in 1991, along with five others. At the time of his murder, Dwight Nicholson was serving his third term as Departmental Chair of the Physics Department. The mass slaying ricocheted through the community of Iowa City and far beyond, touching Jane’s and Dwight’s family, friends, students and colleagues.
Jane and Dwight met in high school and married after graduating from the University of Wisconsin. They lived in Berkeley, California, Boulder, Colorado, and Iowa City. In each place, they studied, taught, and wrote.
At the time of Dwight’s murder, Jane was directing a women’s studies program and teaching comparative literature in academia. During three years of engaging in healing therapies, Jane appeared in public to talk about violence prevention. Marking this time, and not rushing life or grief, Jane then changed her work life to engage in violence prevention. First studying with the Quakers and subsequently studying restorative justice practices, Jane maintains a consulting practice in addition to having reentered academia to teach educators and liberal arts students.
Jane is a native of the Midwest; she writes and teaches there in the company of family and friends.view less