Jane Espenson

Jane Espenson is an American writer who has worked on several television series and comic books, as well as on a variety of other projects. She is perhaps best known for her five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Espenson wrote or co-wrote twenty-three episodes, beginning with the third-season episode "Band Candy" and ending with Buffy's penultimate episode, "End of Days". She is perhaps best known for the humorous episodes that she has penned (sometimes referred to as "Espensodes" or "Espisodes"), including "Triangle" and "Intervention", but she has also written entirely serious episodes such as "After Life".

Along with Drew Goddard, Espenson co-wrote the seventh-season episode "Conversations with Dead People", for which she won the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Short Dramatic Presentation.