Jen Karetnick

Jen Karetnick is the author/co-author of 20 collections of poetry, cookbooks, guidebooks, and more. The winner of the 2020 Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, the 2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Award, the 2017 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest, the 2016 Romeo Lemay Poetry Prize, and the 2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among others, she has also been awarded first place in journalism competitions sponsored by such institutions as Association of Food Journalists, Gourmand Cookbook Awards, North American Travel Journalists, and Society of Professional Journalists. Her poetry, essays, articles, and interviews appear widely in outlets including TheAtlantic.com, Culture Cheese Magazine, ForbesTraveler.com, GoodHousekeeping.com, Guernica, Miami Herald, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, North American Review, NPR, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, Salamander, Southern Living, USA Today, Verse Daily, and Vinepair.com. She is co-founder/co-editor of the daily online literary journal, SWWIM Every Day (www.swwim.org). Jen received an MFA in poetry from University of California, Irvine, and an MFA in fiction from University of Miami. She works as a freelance lifestyle journalist specializing in food and wine, travel, parenting, education, literature and the arts, health and medicine, and more. She is also co-author of the garden-to-table newsletter Dishtillery with her sister, Betsy Karetnick. Find Jen on Twitter @Kavetchnik, Facebook @Kavetchnik and @JenKaretnick, and Instagram @JenKaretnick. Please see her online portfolio at kavetchnik.contently.com or her website at jkaretnick.com.