.

Jane Marchant is an interdisciplinary storyteller working with writing, photography, plants, and collage. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Guernica, Apogee, Kweli Journal, Catapult, Columbia Journal, Evergreen Review, and elsewhere, as well as anthologized in The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century (2Leaf Press). Her photography and book art have been exhibited with the Center for Book Arts, Kala Art Institute, and ACCI Gallery. She’s at work on a memoir in the form of an Encyclopedia of Botany of the San Francisco Bay Area, which investigates motherhood, racial passing, and interconnected root systems.

Jane is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and Lucas Artists Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center. She has received support from the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation, Tin House’s First Book Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and Art Omi, among others. 

Formerly the PEN America Literary Awards Program Director, Jane earned her BA and MFA from Columbia University’s nonfiction writing programs, where she served as co-president of Our Word, a student group advocating for diversity and inclusion in the graduate writing program. She’s taught creative writing in Columbia’s Program for High School Students, as well as to young people incarcerated at the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island.

She lives in the Bay Area, and has also lived in New York, Munich, Amsterdam, and southern Turkey, and traveled extensively—including swimming in the Nile, driving across the Australian Outback, and exploring Lebanon’s Jeita Grotto. 

@jane_marchant

.

.