ABOUT JACLYN Jaclyn Crupi is a book editor, project manager, event moderator 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 has written numerous books for both children and adults. Her 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, PIP Magazine and Frankie, as well as the anthology Family published by Text Publishing.
Garden Like a Nonno
Published by Affirm Press, 2021
Pasta Love
Published by Affirm Press, 2023
The ABC Kids Guide to Loving the Planet
Published by HarperCollins, 2022
Nonna Knows Best
Published by Affirm Press, 2020
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
