 Jackie Craven at the Albany Book Festival, Albany, NY, September 14, 2019 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | State University of New York |
| Genre | Poetry; non-fiction |
Jackie Craven is an American poet and author with a broad background in arts and the humanities.
Her collection, WHISH, won the 2024 Press 53 Award for Poetry. [1] Other books include Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2018) [2] and two chapbooks, Cyborg Sister (Headmistress Press competition finalist, 2021) [3] and Our Lives Became Unmanageable (Omnidawn award for fabulist fiction, 2016). [4] Her publications also include two books on home décor, [5] articles on architecture and design, travel essays, poetry, fiction, and literary commentary. [6]
For twenty years, Craven wrote about literature, art, architecture, design, and other topics for ThoughtCo, [7] an online resource that evolved from About.com. [8] Craven's literary writing has been published in various journals, including AGNI (magazine), The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, River Styx (magazine), Existere, The Fourth River, SNReview, Pearl (literary magazine), Pleiades (journal), Ploughshares, Poet Lore, and The Asheville Poetry Review. [9] She is a member of the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA), [10] and her travel features have been published in major newspapers in the United States and Canada. [11] She wrote a monthly column for House & Garden magazine, [11] and published many features in The Providence Journal and other newspapers. Previously, she worked as an architecture writer for Realtor magazine.
She holds a Doctor of Arts in English from the State University of New York at Albany. [11] Craven lives in Schenectady, New York and Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Jackie Craven attended Robert Kendall's course on Hypertext [12] in 1995. Her electronic literature In the Changing Room got published in 1998. [13]
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