Trivia

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

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.)

Currently Co-Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica while under a development deal with NBC/Universal. (May 2007)

Jane Espenson grew up in Ames, Iowa, and attended graduate school at UC Berkeley, where she studied linguistics.

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

She was an ABC/Disney Writing Fellow for 1992-1993.

Currently working as a staff writer/producer on the WB show 'Gilmore Girls' and writing a new short story for inclusion in the new 'Tales Of The Slayers' collection (a branch of the extensive Buffy-related fiction franchise.) (November 2003)

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

Currently working as a writer/producer on the show 'Jake in Progress' and pitching pilot projects under an overall deal with 20th Century Fox television. (July 2005)