Jennifer Clement is the author of the memoir Widow Basquiat that made the "Booksellers' Choice" list in the United Kingdom and two novels: A True Story Based on Lies, which was a finalist in the Orange Prize for Fiction in the United Kingdom, and The Poison That Fascinates. She is also the author of several books of poetry:  The Next Stranger (with an introduction by W.S.  Merwin), Newton’s Sailor, Lady of the Broom and Jennifer Clement:  New and Selected Poems.  Clement’s work has been translated into 8 languages.

Jennifer Clement was awarded Mexico's prestigious "Sistema Nacional de Creadores" grant and was the winner of the UK's Canongate Prize for her story A Salamander-Child. In 2001 she was also the recipient of a US-Mexico Fund for Culture (FONCA, Fundacion Cultural Bancomer, the Rockefeller Foundation) grant for the San Miguel Poetry Week, which she founded in 1997 with her sister, Barbara Sibley.  In 2007 she received a MacDowell Fellowship.

Clement's work has appeared in numerous anthologies including The Best of The American Voice and Akzente, The London Times, The Herald, Poetry London, The Nation, The American Poetry Review and The Independent Magazine, among others, have published her stories, poems and essays.  Recently the composer Jan Gilbert has created an “Eleven Song Setting” of Clement’s The Lady of the Broom for soprano, flute, viola, and violoncello.

Jennifer Clement lives in Mexico City, Mexico.

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