Jackie Craven

Jackie Craven combines a career in journalism with whimsical and often surreal literary writing. She's the author of Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press) and the chapbooks Our Lives Became Unmanageable (winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Award) and Cyborg Sister (finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize, Headmistress Press).  Her writing appears in journals such as AGNI, The Asheville Poetry Review, Chautauqua, Columbia Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal, Pleiades, Ploughshares, River Styx, Salamander, and Spillway. As a journalist, she's published books on home décor and more than 500 articles on architecture, visual art, literature, and cultural travel. Raised in northern Virginia, she earned degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University (B.S.) and the University at Albany, New York (M.S. and Doctor of Arts). She lives in upstate New York, with extended stays in Northern Virginia and Florida. Find her online at JackieCraven.com.

Education:  Virginia Commonwealth University (B.S.) and the University at Albany, New York (M.S. and Doctor of Arts)