Jana Martin's new volume of
short stories, RUSSIAN LOVER AND OTHER STORIES was published by the
great small press YetiBooks/Verse Chorus Press. The book has received
much critical acclaim. Her fiction and nonfiction appears in The Mississippi Review, Five Points, Spork, Yeti, the Village Voice, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, Chronogram and Willow Springs, among others. She also writes regularly about design, architecture, the decorative arts and fashion on the moli view on moli.com. Her fiction column, is mink hollow, appeared regularly on sporkpress.com, an awardwinning magazine and
website. Her story "Hope" won the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for
New Writers. You can read more about her book, other books, other
writers, news of her readings, and links and excerpts from reviews with
lots of odd pictures at her blog, Ever Since the Age of 4. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of
Arizona, she lives in Ulster County and is working on another book.
What you can't see in the first photo is that she is wearing those sunglasses over
her eyeglasses. What you can't see in the photo below is that someone is outside the window, causing those rays.