Jennifer Croft

About Jennifer Croft

Jennifer Croft is an American writer, translator, and critic who has translated different books that have been written in Ukrainian, Polish, and Argentine Spanish. She was given the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for the work that she did translating flights with author Olga Tokarczuk. She received the William Saroyan International Prize in 2020 for writing for Homesick, a memoir. Jennifer grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She went to higher education at an early age, being only fifteen years old when she first attended the University of Tulsa. She would graduate with her BA from the University of Tulsa in 2001. There she would go the University of Iowa, studying Polish and completing an MFA in literary translation. Croft also attended Northwestern University, graduating with a PhD in compa