about me
Jacqueline Doyle’s flash fiction collection The Missing Girl (winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition) was published by Black Lawrence Press in fall 2017. She has published creative nonfiction, fiction, and flash in literary journals such as The Gettysburg Review, Southern Humanities Review, Quarter After Eight, [PANK], Sweet, Monkeybicycle, matchbook, The Pinch, Wigleaf, Catamaran Literary Reader, NOR: New Ohio Review, Hotel Amerika, and Post Road. Her work has earned five Pushcart nominations, three Best of the Net nominations, and numerous prizes (including first place in Midway Journal's 2017 flash contest, judged by Michael Martone). Two of her flash were awarded Finalist listings in Best Small Fictions 2018 and three of her essays were awarded Notable Essay citations, in Best American Essays 2013, 2015, and 2017.
photo: Monica Michelle
After growing up in a New Jersey suburb of New York City, she moved to Ann Arbor for college, then Providence, where she completed her BA at Brown. She lived in Ireland for a year, Germany for three years, and New York City for several years before moving to upstate New York, where she earned her PhD at Cornell. She now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, the writer Stephen D. Gutierrez, and their son Ben. She and Steve are both English professors at Cal State East Bay.
Honors and Awards
Pushcart Prize Nomination
(by The Gettysburg Review, for essay "Family Pictures"), 2018
Finalist, Best Small Fictions 2018
for "Zig Zag," nominated by Midway Journal
for "The Missing Girl," nominated by Black Lawrence Press
Pushcart Prize Nomination
(by Wigleaf, for micro "Little Darling"), 2017
Winner, Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, 2017
(First Place: Memoir-Vignette, Second Place: Creative Nonfiction, Second Place: Flash)
Winner (First Place), "1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest," judged by Michael Martone
Midway Journal (for "Zig Zag"), October 2017
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2017, ed. Leslie Jamison
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
(for “A Eulogy, Despite,” published in Full Grown People)
Winner (First Place), Black River Chapbook Competition,
Black Lawrence Press, 2016 (for flash fiction chapbook The Missing Girl)
Pushcart Prize Nomination
(by Monkeybicycle, for short story "Nola"), 2016
Best Small Fictions 2017 Nomination
(by Quarter After Eight, for flash fiction "Hula"), 2016
Best of the Net Nomination (by Monkeybicycle, for short story “Nola”), 2016
Best of the Net Nomination (by Phoebe, for short story “Winter Afternoon”), 2016
First Runner-Up, 2016 Fiction Contest, judged by Joshua Ferris,
Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art (for “Winter Afternoon”)
Ross McMeekin, “The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week:
Jacqueline Doyle’s ‘Nola’ in Monkeybicycle,” Ploughshares blog, May 7, 2016
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2015, ed. Ariel Levy
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)
(for “Who’s Your Stepdaddy?,” published in Jabberwock Review)
Vela Magazine’s choice in “Women We Read This Week:
Jacqueline Doyle’s ‘The Tyranny of Things,’” March 6, 2015
Pushcart Prize Nomination (by Southern Humanities Review,
(for creative nonfiction essay “Mary Magdalene’s Tibia”), 2014
Finalist, Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction, judged by J.M. Waldie,
Lunch Ticket (for “Requiem for a Marriage”), 2014
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2013, ed. Cheryl Strayed
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
(for “The Tyranny of Things,” published in South Dakota Review)
“Pick of the Week: Jacqueline Doyle’s ‘The Interloper,’”
Longform: A Smart Reader (September 2013)
(for short story published in Bluestem)
Pushcart Prize Nomination (by South Loop Review,
for creative nonfiction essay “Doorbells”), 2013
Contest Winner, Flash Fiction Category, NLAPW Biennial Letters Competition
(for “Louanne’s Baby” in Front Porch Journal), 2013
Winner, “Study Questions” Contest, judged by Patrick Madden,
Ninth Letter Online (for “Nineteen Ways of Looking at an Essay”), 2012
Winner, “Picture Worth 500 Words Contest,"
Tattoo Highway (for “Diego’s Shoes”), 2011
Interviews, Reviews, and Profiles
Featured writer, "Mr. Bear's Violet Hour Saloon" podcast,
Boston Free Radio (Episode 165, "Chasing Rabbits," March 11, 2018)
Featured flash ("Little Darling," Wigleaf) in Cathy Ulrich's craft essay,
"ABC's of Flash Writing: Q is for Quiet," Spry Literary Journal (May 4, 2018)
Elizabeth DiPietro, review of The Missing Girl, Glassworks (May 1, 2018)
Jan Stinchcomb and Alyssa Bluhm, The Missing Girl as one of
"Our Favorite 2017 Small Press Short Story Collections (Plus a Few Others)," Paper Darts
Tommy Dean, "Mini-Interview: Jacqueline Doyle,"
tommydeanwriter.com (December 11, 2017)
Lara Lillibridge, review of The Missing Girl,
Mom Egg Review (December 13, 2017)
Al Kratz, The Missing Girl as one of the "Best Books of 2017: Staff Picks"
The Coil (December 13, 2017)
Authors Talk Podcast, Superstition Review (October 31, 2017)
Katy Haas, review of The Missing Girl, New Pages (November 1, 2017)
Wesley Cohen, review of The Missing Girl,
The East Bay Review (October 7, 2017)
Sarah Batcheller, review of The Missing Girl,
Phoebe: A Journal of Art and Literature (September 22, 2017)
William Woolfitt, “Interview: Jacqueline Doyle,”
Speaking of Marvels: Interviews about Chapbooks, Novellas,
and Books of Assorted Lengths (July 20, 2017)
Lynn Mundell, “One Plus One Equals 3:
A Couple Co-Writing as ‘Alvarado,’” 100 Word Story (October 16, 2016)
Featured Writer, Writing Between the Vines: Vineyard Retreats for Writers, April 2016
Jacqueline Doyle and Stephen D. Gutierrez, “On Collaboration and ‘Imaginary Friends,'"
Grist: The Online Companion, issue 8, 2015
Bird Marathe, “Interview with Alvarado O’Brien
[Jacqueline Doyle and Stephen D. Gutierrez]," Timber, November 2013
Featured Writer #38: Jacqueline Doyle and J.M. Gamble,
Comments by “Study Questions” Contest Judge Patrick Madden
on "Nineteen Ways of Looking at an Essay,"
Ninth Letter Online (November 2012)
Nathaniel Tower, “Author Showcase: Jacqueline Doyle,”
Bartleby Snopes: Post-Experimentalism, September 7, 2012
Residencies and Workshops
Hawai'i Writers' Retreat with Brenda Miller and Sheila Bender, Waikoloa, Big Island, December 2017
Corporeal Writing Hybrid Workshop with Lidia Yuknavitch, Silverton, OR, September 2017
WordTango's Weekend Flash Workshop with Kathy Fish, February 2017
Catamaran Writing Conference, Pebble Beach, CA, August 2016
Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Lerman Trust, Laceyville, PA, June 2016
Writing Between the Vines, Vineyard Retreats for Writers, Sonoma, CA, February 2016
First Book Boot Camp with Cristina Garcia, La Dos Brujas Writers’ Workshops, Greenbrae, CA, January 2016
Writing by Writers Workshop@Tomales Bay, Lyric Essay with Mark Doty, Marshall, CA, October 2015
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, General Contributor in Nonfiction, Ripton, VT, August 2015
Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Creative Nonfiction, Squaw Valley, CA, July 2014
Creative Nonfiction Workshop, Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, June 2012