Jane Caro AM is a Walkley Award-winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, advertising writer, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator.
She has published fifteen books, including Just a Girl, Just a Queen and Just Flesh & Blood, a young adult trilogy about the life of Elizabeth Tudor, and the memoir Plain Speaking Jane. She created and edited Unbreakable which featured stories women writers had never told before and was published just before the Harvey Weinstein revelations. A recent non-fiction work is Accidental Feminists, about the fate of women over 50.
The Mother, her first novel for adults, was released by Allen & Unwin in 2022. This was followed by Lyrebird in 2025. Her most recent publication is Rich Kid, Poor Kid: The Battle for Public Education (Australia Institute Press).
She and Catherine Fox present a popular podcast with Podcast One, Austereo ‘Women With Clout’. She writes regular columns in Sunday Life.
She is on the boards of The Public Education Foundation and Every Age Counts.
