Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham is a Caribbean/African-American writer. She is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow, a 2023 de Groot Foundation Courage to Write Awardee, a 2023 Curtis Brown Brown Creative Breakthrough awardee, a 2021 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar and Hurston/Wright Writer’s Weekend Summer 2021 participant. She has won or been shortlisted for various writing contests, including as the winner of f(r)iction Mag’s 2022 Flash Fiction Contest and second place in Charlotte Lit’s 2023 Lit/South Awards in Fiction.
Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, swamp pink, Litmosphere, X-R-A-Y Magazine among other publications.
She enjoys writing strange stories to explore the harsh realities of being other and she is currently working on a speculative genealogy trilogy utilizing family archives and horror mythology from the African Diaspora.
Jeannetta is also the host of The Write Attention Podcast (@writeattention), co-founder of Black Women Writers in Europe, a NGO devoted to growing Black womxn writers in Europe and one of the founding members of an Aarhus Literaturcenter writing group.
When not writing, Jeannetta works in international aid across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. She lives in Copenhagen/Ebeltoft with her daughter.