The editors are delighted to announce that Jen Karetnick of El Portal, Florida has won the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award contest for her manuscript, Inheritance with a High Error Rate. Runner-up was The Worry Dimension by Brett Hanley and Honorable Mention goes to The Last Beast We Revel In by Noah Davis.
Judge Lauren Camp writes:
The poems in Inheritance with a High Error Rate carry environmental angst and individual, quotidian worries, and also manage to bound with wit and rhythm. From the edge of the Atlantic, in a landscape rife with moist heat, Jen Karetnick sees the “too-early bounty” of fruit. Here too is the body with its sharp struggles and markings of age. In form and in free verse, this resonant collection circles alarm, granting a hard-won, clear-eyed survival. “This is enough wealth to grip.”
Jen Karetnick’s fourth full-length book is the 2021 CIPA EVVY Gold Medal winner The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, 2020). Forthcoming books include the chapbook What Forges Us Steel: The Judge Judy Poems (Alternating Currents Press). Her work has won the Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among other honors, and received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, the Deering Estate, Maryland Transit Administration, and elsewhere. The co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has recent or forthcoming work in American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Cutthroat, Hamilton Stone Review, Missouri Review Poem of the Day, Notre Dame Review, The Penn Review, Ruminate, Tar River Poetry, Terrain.org, The Worcester Review, and elsewhere.
Karetnick will receive a standard publishing contract, 25 author copies of the book, and a $1500 honorarium. Inheritance with a High Error Rate is scheduled to be published in January, 2024.
