Jean Kane

Jean Kane is a poet, fiction writer, and critical essayist who was born in Brooklyn and raised in the Midwest. She teaches at Vassar College in New York. Her debut poetry collection, Make Me, came out from Otis Nebula in 2014 and won her the publisher's first book award, after she had won the 2013 Otis Nebula Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals including American Short Fiction, The Georgia Review, and Prairie Schooner.