Jackie Chicalese is a Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric. As a writer and teacher, her interests include the intersection of creative writing and composition studies, community literacies, and ecopoetics. She currently serves as Graduate Research Assistant to the Brown Chair in English Literacy at the University of Arkansas and as Associate Poetry Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.
Originally from coal country, Pennsylvania, Jackie earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Arkansas, where she was a Graduate Assistant to the Brown Chair in English Literacy and Community Literacies Collaboratory (CLC) and served as Poetry Editor for the Arkansas International. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Gulf Coast, the minnesota review, and elsewhere.