Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic, and translator known for her work translating Polish, Ukrainian, and Argentine Spanish literature. She gained significant recognition for her translation of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights, for which she was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, alongside the Nobel laureate author. Her 2020 memoir, Homesick, originally written in Spanish as Serpientes y escaleras, earned her the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Croft's illustrious career includes numerous prestigious grants and fellowships such as Guggenheim, Cullman, Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell, Fondation Jan Michalski, Yaddo, and National Endowment for the Arts. She was also the recipient of the Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation and a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for Homesick. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.

An influential figure in the literary world, Croft is a founding editor of The Buenos Aires Review. Her work and translations have appeared in top publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and many others. She has translated works by Romina Paula, Federico Falco, Pedro Mairal, Tina Oziewicz, Sylvia Molloy, and Sebastián Martínez Daniell. Her advocacy for translators' recognition led her to launch the #TranslatorsOnTheCover campaign.

Croft has served as a Visiting assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas and, as of 2023, holds the position of Presidential Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa.