Jane Espenson is an American television writer and producer who has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She is perhaps best known for her five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, work for which she shared in a Hugo Award. She is currently working on Caprica, in which she will be serving as showrunner for the series.

Espenson grew up in Ames, Iowa. While Espenson was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley, she submitted several spec scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation as part of a script submission program open to amateur writers; Espenson has referred to the program as the "last open door of show business." Her next break was a spot in the Disney Writing Fellowship, which led to work on a number of sitcoms, including Disney's animated comedy Dinosaurs and Touchstone Television's short-lived Monty. Espenson was then hired as a staff writer at Ellen.

After a year, Espenson decided to switch from comedic to dramatic writing and applied for a position at Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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