 She is married to the Swiss novelist and playwright, Christoph Keller, and the couple divide their time between New York City and St. Gallen, Switzerland.In a review of "Once I Gazed at You in Wonder", poet Alice Fulton writes, 

Jan Heller Levi's work countervails the implications of this curmudgeonly koan with passional, self-critical intelligence.Ardent yet free of gush, the spontaneity and conversational ease of her poems assure that the quality of wonder, like that of mercy, is not strained.