The winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award for Inheritance with a High Error Rate (January 2024), selected by Lauren Camp, Jen Karetnick is the author of 10 additional poetry collections, including the chapbook What Forges Us Steel: The Judge Judy Poems (Alternating Current Press, July 2024). Her work has won the Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among other honors, and has placed in dozens of competitions, including finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize for The Treasures That Prevail (Whitepoint Press, 2016). She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Wildacres Retreat, Mother’s Milk Artist Residency, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, and elsewhere.
Karetnick is the co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, the only online daily journal that raises women’s voices. She has recent or forthcoming work in The American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, Cold Mountain Review, Harpur Palate, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Notre Dame Review, Plume, Shenandoah, South Dakota Review, and Tar River Poetry. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Irvine, and an MFA in fiction from the University of Miami.
A native of New Jersey, Karetnick is based on unceded Tequesta land in Miami. She lived and worked on the last historic acre of a mango grove in Miami Shores for two decades and now lives in a 100-year-old restored Tudor in a bird sanctuary called El Portal where peacocks roam the streets. A former full-time educator, she works as a freelance food-travel writer and is the author/co-author of four cookbooks–including Mango, her love letter to the land–four guidebooks about Miami, and a book on vintage fashion.
See jkaretnick.com or visit her on Instagram at JenKaretnick or on Twitter/X at Kavetchnik.
chapbook What Forges Us Steel: The Judge Judy Poems (Alternating Current Press, July 2024). Her work has won the Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among other honors, and has placed in dozens of competitions, including finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize for The Treasures That Prevail (Whitepoint Press, 2016). She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Wildacres Retreat, Mother’s Milk Artist Residency, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, and elsewhere.
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