About me
Jane Marchant is an interdisciplinary storyteller whose work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Guernica, Apogee, Catapult, Columbia Journal, Kweli Journal, Evergreen Review, and elsewhere. She is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant Recipient, and a Lucas Artists Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center, and has received support from the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation, Tin House’s First Book Residency, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, and others.
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, her memoir-in-progress, Jane Marchant’s Encyclopedia of Botany, uses plants from her childhood garden to question ideas of motherhood, racial passing, and interconnected root systems. Her favorite flower is jasmine.