 As a journalist, Craig won the British Press Awards 1995 Young Journalist of the Year and the 1997 Catherine Pakenham Award.She worked on the staff of "Tatler" and the "Sunday Express" before becoming a freelance feature writer, literary critic and columnist for "The Daily Telegraph", "The Sunday Times", the "Daily Mail", "The Independent", and "The Observer".She had judged numerous literary prizes including the Whitbread Novel Award in 2005, the Booktrust Teen Book Award in 2008, and the 2018 Wingate Prize.