Jane Medved

Jane Medved with dog

JANE MEDVED is the author of Deep Calls To Deep (winner of the Many Voices Project, New Rivers Press) and the chapbook Olam, Shana, Nefesh (Finishing Line Press) Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bending Genres, ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry, Literary Mama, Ruminate, The North American Review and The Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology.  Her awards include winner of the 2021 RHINO translation prize and the 2021 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize – Honorable Mention. Her translations of Hebrew poetry can be seen in Hala, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Copper Nickel. She is the poetry editor of The Ilanot Review, and a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv.

Wherever We Float, That’s Home by Maya Tevet Dayan, translated from Hebrew by Jane Medved, won the 2023 Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize and is forthcoming with Saturnalia Books.