J.M.C. Kane is the author of the non-fiction book Quiet Brilliance: What Employers Miss About Neurodivergent Talent and How to See It (CollectiveInk UK). His prose work has been published in more than three dozen literary journals & magazines, including Plough, Camas, AMERICA Magazine, Commonweal, Smokelong Quarterly, and The New Ohio Review, where his essay “Nomenclature of a Life,” cataloguing his experience as an ASD-1, was awarded the 2026 Ellis Prize for Non-Fiction. Kane received the Honorable Mention in the 2026 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize and his recent poem “Sediment” was the runner-up in the 2025 Gulf Coast Journal Poetry Prize. He lives in New Orleans with his family, where he works as an environmental attorney.
