Jacqueline Berger lives in San Francisco. She received an MFA in creative writing from Mills College in Oakand, California in 1995. Her first book, The Mythologies of Danger, won the Bluestem Award and was published in 1998. It also won the 1998 Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) Award. Her second manuscript, Eating in Public, has been a finalist in the Bear Star Award, 2002, the National Poetry Series, 2002, the Utah State, May Swenson Award, 2003, and a semi-finalist in the New Millennium Writing contest, 2003, and the Lynx House Press contest, 2003. Individual poems were chosen as finalists in the River Styx International Poetry contest, 2003. Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and journals, among them: American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon), On The Verge (Agni Press), Old Dominion Review, Rhino, River Styx, and Poetry Flash. She teaches at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont and at City College of San Francisco.
