Jackie Craven draws inspiration from artists who experimented with surrealism and magic realism. Her collection, Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters, combines narrative and ekphrastic poetry to unravel the tangled secrets of an eccentric family. Jackie’s wry, whimsical, and often strange poems also appear in journals such as The Asheville Poetry Review, Chautauqua, Columbia Poetry Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal, River Styx, Salamander, and Spillway. Her fiction chapbook, Our Lives Became Unmanageable, experiments with fragmented narrative structures.
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- Televisions in Hospital Waiting Rooms (Stone Canoe Journal)
- In Which I Try to Leave My Husband, But Cannot Find the Words (The Massachusetts Review)
- Under Anesthesia, I Remember a Watermelon with Slippery Seeds (Rogue Agent)
- Biology 101 (Poets Reading the News)
- Stopping by the Columbarium on a Sunny Afternoon (New Ohio Review)
- Poems from Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press)
- Passage from Our Lives Became Unmanageable (Omnidawn)
- White Lightning (r.kv.r.y quarterly)
- Imposter (Spillway)
- Woozy in the Pool at Mar-a-Lago at 7:00 A.M. (Poets Reading The News)
- Many Happy Returns (Red Eft Review)
- Perspective Dreaming (Water~Stone Review)
- Where are the teeth I slipped under my pillow? (Silver Birch Press)
- Darwin’s Daughter (Women’s Studies Quarterly)
- Special Ed (fiction, Verdad Magazine)
- Anything Low Will Do (fiction, SNReview)
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