Essays, Stories & Creative Things

Essays

• I Chose Love Over Having Children — The Telegraph (Stella Magazine)

• The Object of Heat — Nailed Magazine

• You Always Call on a Sunday — The Sun 

• Left as it Was, It Would Come Apart — VoiceCatcher and included in She Holds the Face of the World, the VoiceCatcher 10th anniversary anthology.

• Before — The Rambler. Download PDF

• What We Want — Compassion Over Fear blog by Marlena Fiol
  

Fiction

• Her Own Special Touch — Slice magazine

• Chicks — South Dakota Review. Download PDF.

• On Their Best Behavior — Obsidian award finalist.  High Desert Journal. Download PDF.

• See the People on the Other Side — Inkwell. Download PDF.

Other Work

• Podcast — Jackie joins Yuvi Zalkow, co-hosting seasons 2 and 3 of Neurotic Tornado: A Podcast About Relationships.

• Video — Jackie tells her #MeToo story, Knives, of having been raped almost 40 years ago, and the unfolding impact for herself and those around her. She hopes her story will help survivors and those who love them understand that the need to talk about sexual assault is powerful and necessary.