Christmas had a career as a newspaper editor and journalist, and later as a public relations manager in the public sector, before devoting her time exclusively to writing.[1]
She was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2014 for And Then There Were Nuns,[3] which chronicles a year she spent in various convents while deciding whether to marry for a third time or to take up a vocation as an Anglican nun.;[1] and was long-listed for the same award in 2021 for Open House: A Life in Thirty Two Moves.[4]
She has published five books of what has been categorized as travel writing but of which she prefers to call journey memoir. She was co-author of A Journey Just Begun (2015) with the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine in Toronto.
^Gale Zoë Garnett, "Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy, by Jane Christmas". The Globe and Mail, October 1, 2009.
^"Jane Christmas's new book explores a life on the move: For some people, even the thought of moving is hell. For this author, moving is an adventure". Hamilton Spectator, December 17, 2020.