About Jana Martin

photograph by Jennifer May

Jana Martin is an award-winning author and editor. 

She's the author of numerous books and articles, including the acclaimed short story collection, Russian Lover and Other StoriesSmoke Gets in Your Eyes, Great Inventions, Good Intentions: U.S. Design Patents, 1930-1945, and Scarlett Saves Her Family, which was featured on OprahGeraldo, Good Morning America, and other talk shows, and in  People, Cosmopolitan, and US. She contributed essays, profiles and rants to books including Women Who Rock: From Bessie to Beyoncé, Feckless Cunt, Avedon: The Sixties  and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame annuals. 

Her creative nonfiction, fiction and prose poems have been widely published — in La Piccioletta Barca, New World Writing Quarterly, Cutthroat, Five PointsGlimmer TrainSporkMississippi Review, and Yeti. She's written for The New York TimesMarie Claire, Chronogram, the Village Voice, and other publications.  

Recent editorial projects include Vanishing Point Forever, Richard Prince: Cowboy, Nagle, Ron, All Roads Lead to Ram, and ghostwritten regular / featured columns on Forbes, Inc., and Fast Company.

She was a regular contributor and editor on theweeklings.com, and is an NEA and Glimmer Train awardee and Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives and works in the Hudson Valley.

 
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