Jana Martin

Jana Martin is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction as well as an editor and teacher who lives in the Hudson Valley. She's the author of Russian Lover and Other Stories, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Great Inventions. She's contributed essays, profiles, and rants to numerous anthologies, such as Women Who Rock and Feckless Cunt. Her short story "Hope" won a Glimmer Train Short Story award, and her stories, hybrids, articles, and essays appear in La Piccioletta Barca, Five Points, Postroad, Cutthroat, Mississippi Review, and the New York Times. She was a frequent contributor to The Weeklings, where her essay on Etsy.com received a Pushcart Prize nomination. She was a SUNY New Paltz writer in residence, taught creative writing and journalism there, and has taught at the University of Arizona, UC Sonoma, Loyola Marymount University, and for Hudson Valley's own Wordcafé series. She recently received the Susana Meyer Award for Creative Arts. In other times, she’s been a bass and guitar player, a singer, a K9 handler, and a cook. janamartinwriter.com.