Jane Armstrong was born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan and raised in Melfort, Sask., Yellowknife, N.W.T., Peterborough Ont., and many other small towns across Canada. She was a newspaper reporter for two decades, first at The Toronto Star where she covered city politics and Queen’s Park.

Later, she moved to Vancouver as a national correspondent in the Globe’s British Columbia bureau, traipsing the province in floatplanes and ferries.

In between, she moved to Russia for a year in 2007 to cover national elections and made the first of three trips to Afghanistan.

In 2010, Armstrong left the Globe to try her hand at online journalism. She joined OpenFile, a Toronto-based news startup. In 2011, Armstrong won the won the Michener-Deacon fellowship to write about Canada’s aid legacy in Afghanistan for The National Post. Her work has appeared in Maclean's, The National Post, OpenFile and The Globe and Mail.