Jen Karetnick is a Poet, writer, food-travel journalist, dining critic, and educator.

Jen Karetnick is the author/co-author of 19 books, including five full-length poetry collections: Inheritance with a High Error Rate, winner of the 2022 Cider Review Press Book Award (January 10, 2024); The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, 2020), 2021 CIPA EVVY Gold Medal winner, 2021 Eric Hoffer Poetry Category Finalist, and 2021 Kops-Fetherling Honorable Mention; The Treasures That Prevail (Whitepoint Press, September 2016), finalist for the 2017 North American Poetry Book Award from the Poetry Society of Virginia; American Sentencing (Winter Goose Publishing, May 2016), long-listed for both the 2017 Julie Suk Award and the 2017 Lascaux Prize; and Brie Season (White Violet Press, 2014). She is also the author of six poetry chapbooks: What Forges Us Steel: The Judge Judy Poems (Alternating Current Press, forthcoming 2024); The Crossing Over (March 2019), winner of the 2018 Split Rock Review Poetry Chapbook Contest, Prayer of Confession (Finishing Line Press, 2014); Landscaping for Wildlife (Big Wonderful Press, 2012); Bud Break at Mango House, winner of the 2008 Portlandia Prize; and Necessary Salt (Pudding House Publications, 2007).

In addition, Jen is the editor of two anthologies of Florida poets and writers.