Clement has written several novels, including Gun Love (2018) and Prayers for the Stolen (2014), and published several collections of poetry and the memoirs 'Widow Basquiat' (2001)and 'The Promised Party'(2024).

Born in 1960 in Greenwich, Connecticut, Clement moved in 1961 with her family to Mexico City, where she later attended Edron Academy.

[1] She is the co-director and founder, with her sister Barbara Sibley, of the San Miguel Poetry Week.

… The life of Basquiat … is a joyous lightning bolt when it is described in true detail, as it is in Clement's extraordinary as-told-to poem.

[citation needed] Her prize-winning story A Salamander-Child is published as an art book, with work by the Mexican painter Gustavo Monroy.

Jennifer Clement, along with her sister Barbara Sibley, is the founder and director The San Miguel Poetry Week.