Jaclyn Alexander is a native New Yorker, and after a four-year stint in the Mid-West at Washington University in St. Louis, she returned to her home state. She completed her MFA at The New School, where she was selected to be the research assistant to the head of the program. Her poems, fiction, and nonfiction have been published in BOMB, Vestal Review, Haribo, and Prelude, and are forthcoming in Bowery's Anthology. Jaclyn has been teaching writing to kids for the past five years, and she started her own ceramic business on the side: jaclynalexander.com. She has worked as a teaching artist at Voices Unbroken, an organization that puts writers into foster care centers and prisons in NY, and she volunteers as a Prison Writing Mentor with Pen American Center. This is her first published chapbook.