Editor, author and poet as well as pen-for-hire, Jen Karetnick tackles a variety of lifestyle subjects. Her writing has been published in The Atlantan, Boca Raton Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul Magazine, Continental Magazine, Florida Travel & Life, The Miami Herald, The New York Times, and Poets & Writers. She has MFAs in Poetry and Fiction from UC Irvine and the University of Miami. As a poet, she has placed more than 75 poems in journals and anthologies including The Greensboro Review, The Nebraska Review, North American Review, and River Styx. Jen's poetry chapbook, NECESSARY SALT, was released by Pudding House Publications. She has won honors from the North American Travel Journalists Association, Association of Food Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Missouri School of Journalism, and is a member of the Poetry Society of America, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, and Les Dames d'Escoffier.