Jane Medved

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Biography

Jane Medved is the author of Deep Calls To Deep (winner of the Many Voices Project, New Rivers Press) and the chapbook Olam, Shana, Nefesh (Finishing Line Press) Recent essays and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Mason St., Swwim, Ruminate, The North American Review, The Normal School, and The Seneca Review. Her awards include winner of the 2021 RHINO translation prize and Honorable Mention – 2021 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize. Her translations of Hebrew poetry can be seen in The High Window, Hala, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Copper Nickel. She is the poetry editor of the Ilanot Review, and a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv.

Published Works

Deep Calls To Deep (New Rivers Press, 2017)
Olam, Shana, Nefesh (Finishing Line Press, 2014)
Wayfarers (Grid Books, 2024)

Translation from Hebrew
Wherever We Float (Saturanalia Books, 2024)

Links to Sample Works

• The Normal School, “My Mother in the Night”
• Unbroken Journal, “When My Father Had Open Heart Surgery”
• Rhino Poetry, “Cotton” by Maya Tevet Dayan; translated from the Hebrew by Jane Medved (Rhino 2021 Translation Prize)

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Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Bar Ilan University, Graduate Creative Writing Program

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