Jacquelyn Shah

Jacquelyn Shah is a writer whose memoir-essay collection Limited Engagement: A Way of Living (Choeofpleirn Press, 2023) recounts her path from a dysfunctional childhood to a purposeful life after a failed suicide attempt in college. She won the 2022 Kenneth Johnston Nonfiction Book Award and later judged the 2023 contest. Her earlier publications include a chapbook, small fry, and a full-length book, What to Do with Red, plus poems in journals such as Rhino and The Texas Review.