A native of Oklahoma City, Jane Butkin Roth lives and writes in Houston. She received her B.A. in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. She is a member of Women in the Visual and Literary Arts, Houston, the National Association for Poetry Therapy, and The Writers' League of Texas. Roth is the mother of three.

More than 100 of her short fictions, essays, and poems have appeared in more than 70 journals worldwide, including the Houston Chronicle, Oklahoma Today, Windsor Review (Canada), Texas Writer, Rattle, Pearl, Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Sivullinen (Finland), Old Red Kimono, Red Wheelbarrow, Owen Wister Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Redoubt (Australia). Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including Haiku-Sine: 217 Tiny Food Poems for Texans Who Love To Eat and Feed Their Heads (Lazywood Press); Essential Love (Grayson Books); Mothers and Daughters (Random House), and Baby Blessings (Random House).