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Jan Oxenberg (1950) is an American film producer, director, editor, and screenwriter. She is known for her work in lesbian feminist films and in television. In the 1970s she was involved with ELF (education liberation front), a traveling educational resource, carrying information and books on liberation movements, racism, ecology and more. Around 1974 she was active in producing a radio series called "Lesbian Sisters" on KPFK Los Angeles. Oxenberg wrote for Relativity, which featured the first kiss between two lesbian/bisexual characters on American television in 1997, and Once and Again, which also had a pioneering queer storyline. She has also worked as a producer and writer on Pretty Little Liars. Other credits include Cold Case, Kidnapped, In Plain Sight, and Chicago Hope. Since 2013, Oxenberg has been adapting James Ellroy's memoir, My Dark Places for a screenplay and film production by Myriad Pictures.