ABOUT JANE MUSCHENETZ

Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz is a Ukrainian-born, Jewish author and artist who fled the Soviet regime as a child. Winner of the 2024 California Press Women Communications Prize in Creative Verse, Jane has appeared on KPBS Midday Edition, Spoken Word Paris, and in numerous noteworthy publications. 

Recognized in 2023 for Excellence in Poetry Performance by the County of San Diego, Jane's additional honors include the 2024 Poetry Collection of the Year Award from San Diego Writers Festival and the 2022 Good Life Review Honeybee Poetry Prize. She is the author of 
All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (Kelsay Books, 2023) and POWER POINT (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2024), which combines dark humor, statistical analysis and visual poetics to interrogate societal inequalities. Jane is also the “butter half” of the husband-and-wife team behind the food and photography blog, Table M. Jane earned her MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Business and her BA in Political Science from UCSD.