Jennifer Croft

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Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024), 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 lives in Los Angeles and Tulsa.

The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

Jennifer Croft
New York. Bloomsbury. 2024. 320 pages. My favorite method of procrastination is to wander on Google Maps and bookmark places that interest me—ostensibly with the intent of visiting t…
Interconnected Ecologies: A Conversation with Kathryn Savage

July 20, 2023 Jennifer Croft
Kathryn Savage / Photo by Melissa Lukenbaugh Kathryn Savage’s Groundglass (Coffee House Press, 2022) explores the health harms of living in a polluted world. The essay, closer to poetic e…
Memory as Resistance and Imagination: A Tribute to Boubacar Boris Diop

January 2023
Jennifer Croft
Photo by Gavyn Redd Jennifer Croft, who nominated Diop for the 2022 Neustadt Prize, delivered the following encomium at the ceremony during which he received the award at the University o…