Jacqueline’s fiction and nonfiction have been published in journals including Shenandoah, Western Humanities Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Ecotone, North Dakota Review, and others. She co-edited two anthologies, most recently The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Women Writers on Forerunners in Fiction with co-editor Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum (Lewis-Clark Press, 2008).
“Solstice in the Jardin du Luxembourg”
Inspired by Virginia Woolf and set in Paris’s most famous garden, the narrative weaves in and out of five women’s lives on the longest day of the year.
“Strays”
Set in West Texas, the narrative explores the evolving trust between a grieving man and a lonely boy.
“Curio”
An afternoon a young woman and an aging Russian dancer spend together during a winter snowstorm in Chicago.
“Heroin(e)”
Weaves “Beauty and the Beast” and excerpts from the Bible into my meeting with an 18 year old boy recovering from heroin addiction at a halfway house in Austin.
“Domesticated Animals”
Interconnected narratives exploring people and their pets. Who is the more domesticated?
“A Blessing”
In this essay, walking is both moving meditation and pilgrimage. The title comes from James Wright’s poem which ends “If I stepped out of my body, I would break into blossom.”