Jennifer Kane is a writer, environment advisor, and former civil servant from the Washington, DC area. She has a short story forthcoming in the spring 2026 issue of Conjunctions and a microreview in Volume .006 of the Randolph MFA lit mag Revolute.  She co-wrote and co-led development of the 2024 USAID Biodiversity Policy, which guided a $350 million (annual) global biodiversity conservation portfolio. She has worked as a biologist, scientific illustrator, and environment and international development professional. 

Jennifer graduated from the Randolph College MFA in Creative Writing program, where she was a Blackburn Fellow and Lead Fiction Editor for Volume .005 of Revolute. She received an honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest 91st annual writing competition in the category of Mainstream/Literary Short Story.  She is currently working on a short story collection and a novel about field biologists in Panama.

CONTACT: jenniferkanewrites [at] gmail [dot] com