Yana Kane was born in the Soviet Union and came to the US as a refugee at the age of 16. She has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, and a PhD in Statistics from Cornell University. Currently, she works as a data scientist in the telecommunications industry. Yana is a student in Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program in Creative Writing, where she has been awarded the Mitch and Lynn Baumeister Scholarship. Her most recent bilingual Russian-English poems and poetry translations from Russian into English have appeared in EastWest Literary Forum and in “Точка.Зрения” (litpoint.press). Yana’s work was designated by Точка.Зрения as among “Best of 2022” in the category “Literary Translation”.
