About

Jackie Domenus (she/they) is a queer writer and the host of the Queer & Trans Nonfiction Podcast. Their book, NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS (ELJ Editions), is a Finalist for a 2025 Publishing Triangle Award and was named a notable small press book of 2025 by Literary Hub. Jackie’s essays have appeared in The HuffPost, Autostraddle, The Offing Mag, The Normal School, Pidgeonholes, Foglifter Journal, Variant Lit, and elsewhere. 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’s work has been supported by the Tin House Workshop, Sundress Academy for the Arts Residency, and the Sue-Je Gage Sunlit Residency for Human Rights & Social Justice. She has formerly served as a publishing assistant at Guernica Magazine, an associate editor for Glassworks Magazine, and a contest coordinator for Philadelphia Stories. Jackie earned her MA in Writing from Rowan University and 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.