Jackie Craven
Jackie Craven is an American poet and author with a broad background in arts and the humanities. Career. She's the author of "Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters" (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2018) and a chapbook of fabulist tales, "Our Lives Became Unmanageable" (Omnidawn, 2016), which won the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction award. Her publications also include two books on home décor, articles on architecture and design, travel essays, poetry, fiction, and literary commentary. She writes about literature, art, architecture, design, and other topics for ThoughtCo, an online resource that evolved from About.com, where Craven worked for many  years. Craven's literary writing has been published in various journals, including AGNI (magazine), Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, River Styx (magazine), Existere, The Fourth River, SNReview, Pearl (literary magazine), Pleiades (journal), and The Asheville Poetry Review. She is a member of the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA), and her travel features have been published in major newspapers in the United States and Canada. She wrote a monthly column for "House & Garden" magazine, 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. Craven lives in Schenectady, New York and Cocoa Beach, Florida.