Biography for
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Date of Birth

14 July 1964, Ames, Iowa, USA

Birth Name

Jane Amanda Espenson

Trivia

Growing up in Ames, Iowa, Jane Espenson was a grad student at UC Berkeley, studying linguistics.

She was an ABC/Disney Writing Fellow for 1992-93.

At mid-Season 7, she is one of the only long-term Buffy writers never to have directed an episode of the show.

Her favourite characters on Buffy were Jonathan (the littlest geek) and Spike (the errant vampire.)

In her five years as staff writer and producer for the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she wrote a total of 23 episodes. She was the only staff writer (besides series creator Joss Whedon and executive producer Marti Noxon) to be credited on more than five episodes in a single season. (She was credited as writer on no less than 6 episodes in the show's seventh and final season.)

Invented the name of the drink "Zima" while working for a marketing firm.