Jacqueline Vogtman is the recipient of a 2024 fellowship from New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her book, Girl Country, won the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize and was published by Dzanc Books in 2023. Her fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Hunger Mountain, Permafrost, The Literary Review, Third Coast, Smokelong Quarterly, and other journals. Her writing draws on elements of magical realism and speculative fiction while exploring gender, motherhood, class, nature, and faith. Born into a large working-class family, she worked a variety of jobs including cleaning churches and proofreading greeting cards before receiving her MFA from Bowling Green State University in 2010. She is currently Professor of English at Mercer County Community College, where she co-advises the student creative writing club. She has lived in New Jersey most of her life and currently resides in a small town surrounded by wildlife, which she explores with her husband and daughter (and for many years, her sweet dog, Teddy, as well). She can be found on Instagram @jacquelinevogtman.
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(Author photo by Jacque Ricci @Clementine Cottage Photography.)
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