Jana Martin is the award-winning author of Russian Lover and Other Stories, along with several works of nonfiction, including Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Great Inventions, Good Intentions: U.S. Design Patents, 1930–1945, and Zen Cats.

She's contributed essays, profiles, and creative prose to Women Who Rock: From Bessie to Beyoncé, Feckless Cunt, Avedon: The Sixties, and other books.

Her fiction and nonfiction appears in La Piccioletta Barca, New World Writing Quarterly, Cutthroat, Five Points, Glimmer Train, Spork, Mississippi Review, and Yeti. As a journalist, she's written for The New York Times, Marie Claire, Chronogram, the Village Voice, and other publications. She was also contributing editor to the renowned longform essay site The Weeklings.

She received a Pushcart Prize nomination, a Glimmer Train Short Story Award, an NEA award, and the Susana Meyer Creative Arts Award for a forthcoming book.

She was featured on Oprah, Geraldo, and Good Morning America, and in People and Cosmopolitan, for her book Scarlett Saves Her Family(a true story about a cat that rescued her own kittens from a fire).

Recent editing projects include Tamara de Lempicka: Deco and Decadence, Vanishing Point Forever, Richard Prince: Cowboy, Nagle, Ron, Sensual Mechanical: The Art of Craig Kaufman, and All Roads Lead to Ram.

She was SUNY New Paltz writer-in-residence, and has taught creative fiction, nonfiction, and journalism at SUNY New Paltz, Sonoma State, Loyola Marymount (Los Angeles), and in numerous Hudson Valley workshops such as Writers in the Mountains and Wordcafe.

She’s been a town council member, K9 handler on a Search and Rescue team, gogo dancer, cook, photo editor, and bassist, guitarist and vocalist in various bands. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, cat, and a couple of horses. She’s a graduate of the University of Arizona and Oberlin College.