Jane Austen and Me

Published in the January-March 2023 WestWord, this piece tells the story of Katherine Koller’s admiration of Jane Austen’s genius in general and, in particular, her first trip to a Jane Austen Society of North America conference in Victoria, 2022. Her musings about writing a stage adaptation have since been realized in the current Citadel Theatre’s Playwrights Lab. A reading of her adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion will be held at the Citadel’s Collider Festival of New Work at the Zeidler Theatre in June 2024.