Jackie Connelly is a queer editor and writer whose creative nonfiction explores how identity is shaped by queer relationships, unstable bodies and mental illness. Her essay "What Accumulates" was a finalist for CutBank's 2018 Montana Prize in Nonfiction and won 1st place in the 2018 Pinch Literary Awards for Creative Nonfiction, and her essay “20/20,” published in the spring 2018 edition of The Nashville Review, earned a Notable in Memoir Magazine’s inaugural #MeToo Nonfiction Essay Contest. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Zone 3 Literary Journal, Iron Horse Literary Review, Muse/A Journal, and more.
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