ABOUT JANE

An adventurer at heart and a technologist by training, Jane Boon is fascinated by how things work and why things happen. Jane studied manufacturing systems engineering at Kettering University before earning a master’s degree in technology and policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She spent years in the corporate trenches before returning to school for a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. More recently, Jane got interested in the phenomenon of “big data,” completing a master’s degree in statistics at Fordham University where she graduated with honors, at the top of her class. 

Curiosity and openness to experience are part of Jane’s wiring. She began flying gliders at 13 and on her 17th birthday, she became the youngest licensed pilot in her native Canada. She’s trekked in Nepal, Bhutan and Venezuela. And under the guise of “research” for EDGE PLAY, she attended fetish events from Vancouver to Paris, as she sought to bolster the knowledge she’d gained years ago, observing and assisting a girlfriend who was a top-tier dominatrix.

Jane has written for publications like The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Time.com, McSweeneys.net, and TravelandLeisure.com. She has been interviewed on ABC News World News Tonight and in WIRED about microlending. And in one New York Times article, she was described as a “pervy sherpa.” Jane is the Secretary of the Board of Trustees at her alma mater, Kettering University, and in her spare time, she enjoys improv, story-telling, and playing dress-up. She secured her membership in SAG-AFTRA (and her lone IMDB credit) wearing a corset, garters and thigh-high stockings when she portrayed a dominatrix in the Fox TV series, Gotham. 

EDGE PLAY is her first novel. Jane lives in Los Angeles and New York with her husband, Norman Pearlstine.