JACLYN

CRUPI

Jaclyn in her nonna's apron rolling pasta dough with a rolling pin mattarello 
ABOUT JACLYN

Jaclyn Crupi is a book editor, project manager, event host and bookseller. Jaclyn has worked in publishing and bookselling since 2002. She has a Bachelor of Arts (English and Cinema Studies) from Melbourne University and a Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing from RMIT. Jaclyn is regularly on ABC Radio reviewing books and offering reading recommendations. She reviews books on her Instagram account and talks books in her newsletter.

Jaclyn has written numerous books for both children and adults. Her most recent book, Garden Like a Nonno, was shortlisted for an Indie Book Award and longlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award. Her most recent children’s book, The ABC Kids Guide to Loving the Planet, won the Environment Award for Children’s Literature (Non Fiction). Jaclyn’s work has appeared in The Guardian, SBS Voices, At Home, The Canberra Times, Audrey, Slow and Frankie, as well as the anthology Family published by Text Publishing.
Garden like a Nonno book cover Image of elderly man with boots and hat shovelling soil in a garden with a chicken

Garden Like a Nonno
Published by Affirm Press, 2021

The ABC Kids Guide to Loving the Planet
Published by HarperCollins, 2022

Nonna Knows Best cover grey-haired elderly woman rolling pasta with a rolling pin

Nonna Knows Best
Published by Affirm Press, 2020

Family book cover showing a bowl of eggs with all the contributors names on them

Family: Stories of Belonging
Published by Text Publishing, 2023

Jaclyn regularly moderates events at writers festivals, The Wheeler Centre and bookshops. She gives author talks about gardening and making pasta at libraries, community centres and food stores. Jaclyn also runs gardening workshops for children.

Jaclyn is an experienced book editor, proofreader and project manager. Let’s make great books together.

Structural editing

Project management

Copy-editing and proofreading

Ghost writing and developmental editing

“Books are everything to me and I am happiest when writing them, reading them, editing them, talking about them, selling them or promoting them .”

Jaclyn Crupi • Editor, author, project
manager, event host

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View fullsize Feeling some feelings. Regional writers festivals are special, all the more so when you have a deep connection to the region. They create, build and define communities; they showcase writers to readers; they feature genres and topics often neglected
View fullsize How refreshing to have an entire cast of characters who are working class and oh so real. This is US retail so they’re in fact the working poor. Retail workers unite. The jokes about unionising were my favourite. This book heightens the comrade
View fullsize My final @thestellaprize read and while I thought it excellent I am fairly certain that it’s Alexis’s year once again and rightly so. @giramondopublishing
View fullsize I just re-read this delightful Desi rom-com in preparation for interviewing Saman Shad again at Sorrento Writers Festival. I really enjoyed interviewing her last year about this book and am looking forward to moderating a panel focused on diversity i
View fullsize Cusk can be so infuriating. If you’d asked me what I thought of this book at the halfway point I’d have told you she’s written another white middle-class feminist art (where art is the visual arts) book. Yawn. Isn’t she bored
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View fullsize This was ALL style while still being ALL substance. It’s a disorienting read and incredibly original and experimental. If any of those descriptions are not what you’re actively looking for then I’d suggest avoiding this. But I was u
View fullsize I read this over the weekend as I prepare for @sorrentowritersfestival so I won’t review it as I usually would (you’ll have to come to the event) but I will say this is one of the best crime novels I’ve ever read. McTiernan partly u
View fullsize I loved this nuanced multi-voice portrait of a family in crisis and its examination of class and societal bias. It’s decidedly and distinctly Irish and I’d argue that Irish writers are the best in the world at exactly this kind of book. I
View fullsize I sometimes read a novel and think of all the characters you could conjure, you chose to bring these ones to life on the page. Equally, of all the stories you could tell, this was the one you chose to agonise over for years. Good prose always pushes
View fullsize So looking forward to running a pasta class at @coasitmelbourne. I’ll teach you how to make a beautiful dough and while it rests you’ll learn about the history of pasta, the nonne I make pasta with and my deep love for all things pasta. W
View fullsize As Piglet blows up her life in spectacular mostly food-related ways, her hunger grows and you simply cannot look away from a bride throwing her homemade glued together croquembouche wedding cake on the floor, or a woman ordering every burger on the m

That’s a whole lot about me.
I’d love to hear from you about ways we can work together.