About

Jackie Domenus (she/they) is a queer writer from South Jersey and the author of NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS (2025), published with ELJ Editions. A 2021 Tin House Winter Workshop graduate, Jackie’s essays have appeared in The HuffPost, The Offing Mag, The Normal School, Pidgeonholes, Foglifter Journal, Variant Lit, Entropy, Watershed Review, Wig-Wag, Philadelphia Stories, HerStry, Not Deer Mag, and Bullshit Lit’s Second Anthology. Their poetry has appeared in Hooligan Mag and Giving Room Mag. Her short story “Mirror Image” published in So To Speak, as well as her essay “Two Truths and a Lie” published in Identity Theory, were both nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Jackie has formerly served as a publishing assistant at Guernica Magazine, an associate editor for Glassworks Magazine, and a contest coordinator for Philadelphia Stories. In early 2024, Jackie was a resident at Sundress Academy for the Arts. She earned her MA in Writing from Rowan University, where she also earned her BA in English. Jackie has taught through the Rutgers University Cooper Street Writing Workshops program, Barrelhouse, Blue Stoop, Hippocamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers, and more. They work as the Program Director for Fellowships at Mid Atlantic Arts.