ABOUT JANE MUSCHENETZ
BIOGRAPHY
Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz is a Ukrainian-born, Jewish author and artist who fled the Soviet regime as a child. Winner of the 2025 National Press Women Communications Prize in Creative Verse, Jane has appeared in KPBS Midday Edition, Spoken Word Paris, MIT Technology Review, and in numerous noteworthy publications.
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Recognized in 2023 for Excellence in Poetry Performance by the County of San Diego, Jane's additional honors include the 2025 War Poetry Postcard Prize, 2024 Poetry Collection of the Year Award from San Diego Writers Festival, 2022 Good Life Review Honeybee Poetry Prize, and others.
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 earned her MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Business and her BA in Political Science from UCSD.
HONORS
2025
National Federation of Press Women -
First Place Communications Prize
in Creative Verse
2025, 2024
California Press Women - First Place
Communications Prize in Creative Verse
2024
San Diego Writers Festival -
Poetry Collection of the Year
SD Central Library - Author Showcase
Outstanding Author of the Month
2024, 2023, 2022
Best of the Net and Pushcart Nominations
2023
County of San Diego -
Excellence in Poetry Performance
City of Encinitas - Exhibiting Artist
2022
The Good Life Review
Honeybee Literary Prize in Poetry
Lone Star Art Guild- First Place
Mixed Media IV Division
PRESS
MIT Technology Review Feature
SDWF
"Hope, Humor, and the Power of Words"
Author Interview
Reader's Favorite
5 Star Book Review
Tint Journal
Featured Author Talk
The Good Life Review
San Diego Jewish World
Jewish Poets, Jewish Voices
Harbor Review
East County Times