ABOUT JANE MUSCHENETZ
BIOGRAPHY
Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz is an interdisciplinary author and artist who fled Soviet Ukraine as a child. Her work brings structural systems and lived experience into creative dialogue through aesthetic invention, centering belonging while examining how policy, economics, and narrative shape identity and power.
Her work appears in MIT Technology Review, KPBS Midday Edition, Spoken Word Paris, and numerous noteworthy publications. Honors include the 2025 War Poetry Postcard Prize and 2022 Honeybee Poetry Prize.
Her collection POWER POINT (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2024) won the 2025 National Press Women Communications Prize in Creative Verse. Her debut, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (Kelsay Books, 2023) was San Diego Writers Festival's 2024 Poetry Collection of the Year.
Jane holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. She lives in Southern California, where she teaches, speaks, and continues to create work at the intersection of narrative form, systems inquiry, and cultural meaning.
