Jackie Craven writes poetry and prose steeped in magical realism. Her collection, WHISH, won the 2024 Poetry Award from Press 53. Other books include 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, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review MiCRo Series, The Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal, Pleiades, Ploughshares, River Styx, and Salamander. 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, central Florida, and on Zoom, where she hosts a long-standing open mic for writers. Find her online at JackieCraven.com.

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