About
When she was seventeen, Jacqueline won a silver medal from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in the novel category and since then knew she wanted to pursue writing professionally. She moved to New York City after graduating cum laude from The University of Notre Dame’s Honors in Creative Writing Program and NYU’s Writer’s in Paris Program where she practiced unconventional forms of prose and poetry. She worked on Notre Dame’s graduate literary magazine, Re: visions, and co-founded an “underground” writing workshop with graduate students which they named, “Rogue.” At NYU’s Writer’s in Paris program, she learned from best-selling authors and poets like Zadie Smith, Darin Strauss, and Myla Goldberg, and is always nostalgic for her afternoon readings at Shakespeare and Co.
After graduation, she worked for a small literary agency in New York City that published mainly true crime and women’s fiction. After reading manuscripts for hours a day in a small, dark, New York office, she left the agency and now writes fiction full-time. After reading some of her work, Stephen Chbosky (Perks of Being a Wallflower), bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker, wrote “You are a born writer. You have so much talent. I am not blowing smoke here. You could do something truly important.” She has taken that to heart and is working every day to make an impact through writing.