Zena Collier is a short story and young adult fiction writer who also writes as Jane Collier and Zena Shumsky. Collier was born in 1926 in London and studied at the Teacher Writers Workshop at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, where she later taught and lectured. Over the course of her career, Collier was a resident artist at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Collier is best-known for her novels A Cooler Climate (1990) and Ghost Note (1992). She has also regularly contributed short stories and essays to journals and magazines.
