Jane Muschenetz

Biography

Ukrainian-born, Russian-speaking Jew, Jane (Yevgenia!) Muschenetz was granted asylum in the US as a refugee from the USSR at 10 years old. Today, she is a full grown MIT nerd, emerging writer, and mom to two very American kids. In 2022, Jane won the Good Life Review Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Jacar Press Chapbook Prize. Her first poetry chapbook, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in 2023.

Published Works

All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (Kelsay Books, forthcoming 2023)

Links to Sample Works

Poetry

• Platform Review, “Stilettos Over Grass Plots” and “Please Stop Buying Pottery”
• The Good Like Review, “For Those of Us Forced to Flee”

Creative Nonfiction

• Passengers Journal, “Same Old Story or ‘Nothing to Talk About,’ Fairytale in 5 Acts”

Subject Matter

Aging, Antisemitism, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Diaspora, Eastern Europe, Family, Friendship, Gender, Grief & Elegy, History, Intergenerational Trauma, Jewish Mysticism, Jewishness, Labor, Loss, Love, Marriage, Midrash, Misogyny, Motherhood/Fertility, Mythology, Nature, Parenting, Politics, Reproductive Justice, Sex, Shoah, Genocide, Torah, Trauma, Multidisciplinary, Math and/or Physics, Feminism, LGBTQ+, Pop Culture, Mental Illness, Translation, Race.