Zane is a writer, translator, and early modern literature scholar from Denver, CO. Recent critical essays, poems, and translations of contemporary German poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in George Herbert Journal, Jesus the Imagination, Quest, Asymptote Journal, Ezra: A Journal of Translation, and elsewhere. His chapbook Necessary Heavens was a finalist for the 2021 Orison Chapbook Prize. Writings can be found online at zanewrites.com.