Miami-based poet and writer Jen Karetnick's most recent poetry collections include The Crossing Over (March 2019), which won the 2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition; The Treasures That Prevail (Whitepoint Press, 2016), finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize; and American Sentencing (Winter Goose Publications, 2016), long-listed for the 2017 Julie Suk Award and the 2017 Lascaux Prize.

Her next book, The Burning Where Breath Used to Be, is forthcoming from David Robert Books in 2020. Jen's poetry, prose, and plays appear widely in publications including Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, december, The McNeese Review, Michigan Quarterly, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Tampa Review, Waxwing, and Verse Daily.

Also a trade book author, Jen has published The 500 Hidden Secrets of Miami (Luster, 2017) and several cookbooks, including Mango (University Press of Florida, 2014) and the forthcoming Ice Cube Tray Recipes: 75 Easy and Creative Kitchen Hacks for Freezing, Cooking, and Baking in Ice Cube Trays (Skyhorse Publishing, June 2019).

Her freelance articles, essays, and interviews have appeared internationally in outlets including TheAtlantic.com, Culture Cheese Magazine, GoodHousekeeping.com, Guernica, Miami Herald, Poets & Writers, Redbook.com, Southern Living, USA Today, VinePair.com, and Virgin Atlantic. She works as the dining critic for MIAMI Magazine.