Jen Karetnick is the Creative Writing Director for Miami Arts Charter School, teaching poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and playwriting/scriptwriting to students in grades 6-12. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Irvine, and an MFA in fiction from the University of Miami. A native of New Jersey, Karetnick lives in Miami Shores on the last remaining acre of an historic mango plantation with her husband and their two children, three dogs, three cats, and fourteen mango trees.

Other poems by Jen Karetnick in Verse Daily:
August 6, 2016:   "What My Autopsy Will Reveal" "The glass houses of organs were bottles..."

Books by Jen Karetnick:

Other poems on the web by Jen Karetnick:
Six poems
"I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings"
Three poems
"Emergent Cerclage"
"Native Shapes"
"Rules for New Parents"
"The Cappuccino Life"
"Night Sweats"

Jen Karetnick's Website.

Jen Karetnick on Twitter.