Jana Martin es el autor de Russian Lover and Other Stories (Yeti Books/VerseChorus Press), as well as numerous books of nonfiction, including Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Abbeville Press), Great Inventions, Good Intentions (Chronicle Books) and Scarlett Saves Her Family (Simon & Schuster). Her stories and short prose have been published in such journals as Tren Brillante, Five Points, Mississippi Review Online, Spork, Willow Springs, y Turnstile, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Chronogram, Tucson Weekly, and many other publications. She is a former member of Eagle Valley Search Dogs, a K-9 rescue team in New York’s Hudson Valley, and was for years a bass and guitar player and lead singer in various unsung punk and indie bands.