nest & story

creative support for writers

Hi! I’m Jaclyn.

I write sometimes-award-winning stories, poems, and picture books. I also offer creative support for emerging writers through mentorships, workshops, and classes.

Learn about my writing.

Join me in the Poem Garden.

Enlightened Witness (from Danger Flower) ENLIGHTENED WITNESS I’m afraid of nothing except doing the wrong thing. I’m afraid of that every second. Somewhere, a faucet’s dripping. Somewhere, my indiscretions are hooking up in a broo
HOLY MOLY I CAN SEE. Sweet merciful Whatever! Thank you, bifocals! #glasses #visioniscool
NESTING DOLLS (from my @palimpsestpressbooks collection, Danger Flower) Sometimes I feel imbued with a coral colour, an earth pink, like it’s coming out my elbows. Sometimes I feel like my whole body’s a remembering, and the part of me t
I call this collage “B.” But I don’t know what the Bs mean. #visualpoem #digitalcollage #radicalimagination
“I think the imagination is the single most useful tool mankind possesses. It beats the opposable thumb. I can imagine living without my thumbs, but not without my imagination…. Imagination is not a means of making money. It has no place
Livin the dream over here