About

Jen Karetnick is the award-winning author/co-author of 21 books, a mixture of cookbooks, guidebooks, books of poetry, and more, including her fifth full-length book of poems, Inheritance with a High Error Rate (January 2024), winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award. She is also the editor of two anthologies of South Florida poets and writers. Her consumer and creative work has won first place from the Society of Professional Journalists, Association of Food Journalists, North American Travel Journalists, Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among other honors, and received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, Wildacres Retreat, Centrum, Mother's Milk Artist Residency, the Deering Estate, Maryland Transit Administration, and elsewhere. The co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has had work in The American Poetry Review, TheAtlantic.com, Cimarron Review, Guernica, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Missouri Review Poem of the Day, Notre Dame Review, NPR, Southern Living, Tar River Poetry, Terrain.org, The Worcester Review, and elsewhere. See jkaretnick.com.

Featured Work

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Miami

2022, third edition

This Miami guidebook features the best places to dine, drink, shop, stay, and play--all in easy-to-digest lists of five.

Other Works

  • Inheritance with a High Error Rate

    2024

  • The Burning Where Breath Used to Be

    2020

  • Ice Cube Tray Recipes: 75 Easy and Creative Kitchen Hacks for Freezing, Cooking, and Baking with Ice Cube Trays

    2019

  • American Sentencing

    2016

  • The Treasures That Prevail

    2016

  • From the Tip of My Tongue: Stories and Recipes

    2015

  • Mango

    2014

  • Brie Season

    2014

  • Born-Again Vintage: 25 Ways to Deconstruct, Reinvent & Recycle Your Wardrobe

    2008

  • Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow

    2005

  • Fodor’s Around Miami with Kids, 1st Edition: 68 Great Things to Do Together

    2000

Awards and Recognition

  • 2021 Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter: Magazines, Food & Travel Second place for a series of articles published in Allrecipes.com, HuffPost, The Counter
  • 2019 Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter: Magazines, Food & Travel First place for the articles “The End of Mango House” and “Beyond taste: Texture really determines how we eat,” published in A Beautiful Perspective
  • 2017 Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter: Magazines, Food & Travel First place for the article “The Cuba Factor,” published in FSR Magazine
  • 2016 Gourmand Cookbook Awards: Female Cookbook First place, USA; third place, World; for From the Tip of My Tongue (Story Farm Press, 2015)
  • 2015 Les Dames d’Escoffier International M.F.K. Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing, Cookbook Category Second place for Mango (University Press of Florida, 2014)
  • 2015 Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter: Magazines, Criticism Third place for a group of three articles
  • 2007 Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter: Food & Beverage Second place for a group of three articles
  • 2006 North American Travel Journalists: Destination Feature First place for one article
  • 2005 Association of Food Journalists: Columns First place for a group of three articles
  • 1998 Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter: Newspapers, Criticism Second place for a group of three articles
  • 1997 Green Eyeshade Award: Criticism Finalist for a group of three articles
  • 1996 Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter: Newspapers, Criticism Second place for a group of three articles
  • 1996 Missouri School of Journalism Awards: Criticism Finalist for a group of three articles
  • 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award for Inheritance with a High Error Rate (January 2024)