Jackie Craven is an American poet and author with a broad background in arts and the humanities.

Her collection, WHISH, won the 2024 Press 53 Award for Poetry.^[1] Other books include Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2018) ^[2] and two chapbooks, Cyborg Sister (Headmistress Press competition finalist, 2021)^[3] and Our Lives Became Unmanageable (Omnidawn award for fabulist fiction, 2016).^[4] Her publications also include two books on home décor,^[5] articles on architecture and design, travel essays, poetry, fiction, and literary commentary.^[6]

For twenty years, Craven wrote about literature, art, architecture, design, and other topics for ThoughtCo,^[7] an online resource that evolved from About.com.^[8] Craven's literary writing has been published in various journals, including AGNI (magazine), The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, River Styx (magazine), Existere, The Fourth River, SNReview, Pearl (literary magazine), Pleiades (journal), Ploughshares, Poet Lore, and The Asheville Poetry Review.^[9] She is a member of the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA),^[10] and her travel features have been published in major newspapers in the United States and Canada.^[11] She wrote a monthly column for House & Garden magazine,^[11] and published many features in The Providence Journal and other newspapers. Previously, she worked as an architecture writer for Realtor magazine.

She holds a Doctor of Arts in English from the State University of New York at Albany.^[11] Craven lives in Schenectady, New York and Cocoa Beach, Florida.