Jen Karetnick

About Jen Karetnick

I write. I eat. I travel. I teach. Sometimes in that order. Specialties: food…

Experience

1. Poet, Essayist, Fiction Writer, Playwright

   Various Companies

   Jun 1992 — Present · El Portal, FL, US

   I am the award-winning author of 6 full-length volumes of poetry (one forthcoming) and 6 chapbooks (one forthcoming). My poems, stories, personal essays, satire, craft essays on writing, and plays have been published or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Barrow Street, Barzakh Magazine, Blood Lotus, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish Poets, Blue Lyra Review, The Boiler Journal, Book of Matches, Bullets into Bells, CHEST, Cider Press Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Cleaver Magazine, The Comstock Review, Construction Literary Magazine, Coop: A Poetry Cooperative, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Crafty Poet II, Cutthroat, december, DIALOGIST, The Evansville Review, The Fourth River, Gastronomica, Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Gravel, The Greensboro Review, Guernica, The Hamilton Stone Review, The Healing Muse, Hospital Drive, Hurricane Blues, The Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine, JAMA, Jet Fuel Review, The Laurel Review, Lunch Ticket, The MacGuffin, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The McNeese Review, Mezzo Cammin, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Narrative Northeast, Navigating Narratives: A Thematic Reader (Hawkes Learning); The Nebraska Review, North American Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, One, Ovenbird, Painted Bride Quarterly, Passager Journal, PEN Center USA, Permafrost, Poet Lore, Poet’s Market 2013, Poetry South, Prairie Schooner, Prime Number Magazine, Psaltery & Lyre, Rattle, Rewilding: Poems for the Environment, Plume, River Styx, Salamander, Santa Ana River Review, Seneca Review, The Shore, SLAB, Sou’wester, The Spectacle, Split Rock Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Spillway, swamp pink, Sweet: Lit, Tampa Review, Tar River Poetry, Terrain.org, Tiferet Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Review, Under a Warm Green Linden, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Waxwing Literary Journal, WLRN.org, The Worcester Review, and elsewhere.

Education

• University of Miami

  Master fo Fine Arts (MFA), Creative Writing--Fiction

• UC Irvine

  Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Creative Writing--Poetry

• Tufts University

  Bachelor's of Arts, English Language and Literature, Creative Writing

Skills

• Food Writing
• Storytelling
• Publications
• Medical Writing
• Publicity
• Music
• Vintage Clothing
• Copy Editing
• Cookbooks
• Social Media
• Magazine Articles
• Online Journalism
• Co-Author
• Ap Style
• Freelance Writing
• Poetry Readings
• Soccer
• Proofreading
• Media Relations
• Wine
• Poetry
• Magazines
• Publishing
• Food
• Creative Writing
• Content Strategy
• Non-Fiction
• Fact-Checking
• Creative Non-Fiction
• Newspapers
• Facebook
• Books
• Fiction
• Restaurant Reviews
• Playwriting
• Editorial
• Cooking
• Feature Articles
• Anthology Editor
• Travel Writing