about me

​Jacqueline Doyle’s flash fiction collection The Missing Girl  (winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition) is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in September 2017 (and available for pre-order at a discount now). 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, Confrontation, The Pinch, South Dakota Review, and Catamaran Literary Reader. Her work has earned Notable Essay citations in Best American Essays 2013 and Best American Essays 2015, three Pushcart nominations, three Best of the Net nominations, and numerous prizes. 
 
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, New York City for several years, and 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 Benjamin. She and Steve are both English professors at Cal State East Bay.

photo: Monica Michelle

​Honors and Awards
 
Winner, Black River Chapbook Competition,
Black Lawrence Press, 2016 (for forthcoming 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 and Profiles
 
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, upcoming December 2017
Corporeal Writing Hybrid Workshop with Lidia Yuknavitch, Silverton, OR, upcoming September 2017
WordTango's Weekend Flash Workshop with Kathy Fish, February 2016
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