Jackie Craven

Jackie Craven at the Albany Book Festival, Albany, NY, September 14, 2019
NationalityAmerican
Alma materState University of New York
GenrePoetry; non-fiction

Jackie Craven is an American poet and author with a broad background in arts and the humanities.

Career

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.

Selected works

Electronic literature

Jackie Craven attended Robert Kendall's course on Hypertext[12] in 1995. Her electronic literature In the Changing Room got published in 1998.[13]

Chapbooks

  • Cyborg Sister. Headmistress Press (2022)
  • Our Lives Became Unmanageable. Omnidawn Publishing (2016)

Books

  • WHISH, Press 53 (2024)
  • Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters. Brick Road Poetry Press (2018)
  • The Stress-Free Home: Beautiful Interiors for Serenity and Harmonious Living. Rockport Publishers / Quarry Books (2003)
  • The Healthy Home: Beautiful Interiors That Enhance the Environment and Your Well-Being. Rockport Publishers / Quarry Books (2003)
  • The Healthy Home Korean Translation. (2008)
  • The Healthy Home German Translation. (2008)

References

  1. ^ Press 53
  2. ^ Brick Road Poetry Press
  3. ^ Headmistress Press
  4. ^ Omnidawn Publishing
  5. ^ Décor Books
  6. ^ Author's Bio. Poets & Writers
  7. ^ Author's Bio. ThoughtCo
  8. ^ Her Home Page Takes Care of the Home. New York Times
  9. ^ Index: Poems and Short Prose
  10. ^ North American Travel Journalists Association
  11. ^ a b c Bio of Jackie Craven
  12. ^ "Jackie Craven". kairos.technorhetoric.net. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  13. ^ "In the Changing Room". wordcircuits.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
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