Jacquelyn Marie Gallo is a Manhattan-based writer and artist originally from South Florida. She has read and performed her work at numerous cultural and academic institutions including the American Museum of Natural History, Bowery Poetry Club, Dixon Place Theater, KGB Bar, National Arts Club, New School, Red Room and Teach for America.
Along with regular contributions to the Brooklyn Rail, her work has appeared in PANK Magazine’s Latinx Anthology, Art Critical, Dossier Journal and New School’s 12th Street Journal.
She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA Writing Program (May ‘20) and holds a BA in Liberal Arts with Honors from New School University (Dec ‘17) where she was a Riggio Writing and Democracy Program fellow. She has served as managing editor for New School’s 12th Street Journal as well as Columbia University’s Columbia Journal and was awarded an artist residency for writing at the Catwalk Institute in Catskill, New York (Sept ‘20).