Jennifer Croft

Discipline: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing

Based In: Tulsa, OK

Year at Millay: 2025

Awards/Honors: Award Winner, Arts and Letters Awards in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2023); Fellow, Fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY (2022); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2021, 2016); Prize Winner, William Saroyan International Prize for Writing,Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation, Stanford, CA (2020); Prize Winner, The International Booker Prize, Booker Prize Foundation, London, United Kingdom (2018); Fulbright Grantee to Poland, Literature, Fulbright US Student Program (2003).

Website: http://croftwork.net

Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula’s August, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob (a finalist for the Kirkus Prize). In 2023, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.