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A 2024 National Poetry Series finalist, Jen Karetnick is the author of 11 poetry collections, including Inheritance with a High Error Rate, winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award (January 2024); The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 CIPA EVVY Gold Medal and an Eric Hoffer Book Award Poetry Finalist; and The Crossing Over (2019), winner of the 2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition. Her poems have received first place from the Sweet: Lit Poetry Contest, Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among other honors, and received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Pine Meadows Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture, Wassaic Project, Write On, Door County, Wildacres Retreat, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, Mother’s Milk, Centrum Residencies, and elsewhere. Jen's work has appeared in Cold Mountain Review's 50th-anniversary issue, Michigan Quarterly Review's 60th-anniversary issue, The Missouri Review's Poem of the Week feature, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, Shenandoah, and other venues. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Irvine, and an MFA in fiction from the University of Miami. See jkaretnick.com or follow on Instagram @JenKaretnick.
"Play, with Foreign Object" first appeared in The Fourth River and is collected in Inheritance with a High Error Rate, winner of the 2022 Cider Press review Book Award (January 2024). Permission granted by the poet.
