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Jacqueline Sheehan's Biography
Portrait by Joann Berns
Jacqueline
Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist. She is a New
Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the
western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of
things, including house painting, freelance photography, newspaper
writing, clerking in a health food store, and directing a traveling
troupe of high school puppeteers.
Her
first novel, Truth, was published in 2003 by Free Press of Simon and
Schuster. Her second novel, Lost and Found, will be published in 2007
by Avon, Harper Collins. She has published travel articles (Winter in
Soviet Georgia), short stories (most recently in the Berkshire Review),
and numerous essays and radio pieces. In 2005, she was asked to be the
editor of the anthology Women Writing in Prison. This anthology is the
culmination of eight years of writing workshops sponsored by Voices
From Inside, an advocacy group for incarcerated women.
She
is currently the fiction editor for Patchwork Journal, an online
journal sponsored by Patchwork Farm, an internationally based writing
center. Jacqueline teaches workshops on writing and the combination of
yoga and writing. To make requests for regional speaking engagements,
contact Jacqueline directly.
Click below to listen to a WFCR interview with Jacqueline.
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Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist. She is a New Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of things, including house painting, freelance photography, newspaper writing, clerking in a health food store, and directing a traveling troupe of high school puppeteers. |
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Her first novel, Truth, was published in 2003 by Free Press of Simon and Schuster. Her second novel, Lost and Found, will be published in 2007 by Avon, Harper Collins. She has published travel articles (Winter in Soviet Georgia), short stories (most recently in the Berkshire Review), and numerous essays and radio pieces. In 2005, she was asked to be the editor of the anthology Women Writing in Prison. This anthology is the culmination of eight years of writing workshops sponsored by Voices From Inside, an advocacy group for incarcerated women. |
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She is currently the fiction editor for Patchwork Journal, an online journal sponsored by Patchwork Farm, an internationally based writing center. Jacqueline teaches workshops on writing and the combination of yoga and writing. To make requests for regional speaking engagements, contact Jacqueline directly. |
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