Bestselling author of The Books of Elsewhere and Dreamers Often Lie
Bestselling author of The Books of Elsewhere and Dreamers Often Lie
"Crone" in Star*Line, Winter 2024 Issue (Listing only available online)
"Finding the Bird Skull in the Backyard" in Eye to the Telescope
"Mistletoe" in Pyre Magazine (ordering info)
"Buried Heart" in Crow & Cross Keys
"You Have Her Eyes" in Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Volume X (ordering info)
"Gossip in Salem" in Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Showcase
"Blight" in The Crow's Quill Magazine: Historical Horror Issue
"Close to Magic" in Crow & Cross Keys
"The Practice" in Crow & Cross Keys
"Scattering" in Carmina Magazine
"Under World" in Carmina Magazine
* Nominated for the 2023 Rhysling Award *
"Medusa Love" in Star*Line 46.2 (Contents/Ordering Info)
"The Creation" in Eye to the Telescope, Issue 47: Frankenstein
"One Eye, Two Eyes" in the Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. IX (ordering info)
"The Twelfth Dancing Princess Explains" in Enchanted Living, Issue #58: The Fairy Tale Issue (Ordering info)
"A Christening" in Dreams & Nightmares (Listing only available online)
"Sugar" in the Horror Writers Association's Poetry Showcase, Vol. VIII (Ordering info)
"Lost Voice," "Cadaverous Material," and "The Count Loses His Appetite" in Illumen: Autumn 2021 Issue (Ordering info)
"For Ophelia, Twenty-Five Years Later" in Liminality, Issue #28 - Summer 2021
"Biography" in Liminality, Issue #27 (Spring 2021)
"Reasons to Leave the Path" in Star*Line
• Nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize •
• Nominated for the 2021 Rhysling Award •
"Runaway" in Abyss & Apex, Issue 75: 3rd Quarter 2020
"Lady Macbeth's Green Gown" in Liminality, Issue #19 - Spring 2019
• Nominated for the 2020 Rhysling Award •
"The Day the Dragons Returned" in Star*Line (Table of contents and purchasing info)
"Snow Angel" and "A Lover's Almanac" in Enchanted Living (formerly Faerie Magazine)
Candle and Pins: Poems on Superstitions - full-length collection, Alban Lake Publishing
"Yanis" reprinted in The Driftless Reader
"The Boarding School" in Spellbound - Spring 2013 Changelings and Doppelgangers issue
"Black Sheep" - Fantastique Unfettered - December 2011
"Buying the Muse" in Ideomancer
"Styx" in Niteblade
"Escaping the Dawn" in Cover of Darkness (listing only available online)
• Nominated for a 2012 Rhysling Award •
"Sin Eater" in Paper Crow (listing only available online)
"Mother-Die" in Stone Telling
"Corpselight" in Paper Crow (listing only available online)
"One October Night in Baltimore" in Sybil's Garage #7
"Seashell" in Enchanted Conversation
"To a Friend in Alaska," and "Friday, 3 p.m., British Museum" in The Literary Bohemian
"Artemis, in the Kitchen" and "The Evil Eye" in Illumen
Cherma - University of Wisconsin, Madison's Parallel Press chapbook series
"Early Frost" in Grasslimb
"Notre Dame de Paris" in Sugar House Review
"Abracadabra" in Goblin Fruit
"After the Trial" in ChiZine
"Tiresias on Eighth Avenue" and "Midas" in flashquake
"Arsinoe's Letter to her Sister" in Lone Star Stories
"Crash," "Ashes," and "Fade Out" in Neon Magazine
"Lethe" in ChiZine
"Residue" (Listing only available online) in A cappella Zoo
"The Woman at the Well," "Early Frost," and "Strangers" in Prick of the Spindle
"After Party" in 42opus
"Watching the Old Man Clean the Pike" and "Heiligeberge" in Barnwood
"At the Traveling Monet Exhibition" in The Rose & Thorn
"Neurotransmission" and "Venus in Travilla" in ChiZine
"Rusalka" in Illumen
"Stranded on the Red Cedar River" in Inkwell Journal, Fall 2008 Issue
"Family Ritual" in Aberrant Dreams
"Doppelgängers" in Goblin Fruit
Includes Jacqueline's reading of the poem
"In the Brush Pile" in GlassFire Magazine
"Teenage Atlas, in the Kitchen" and "Life through a Black Net Veil" in Fickle Muses
"Antigone, at the Mall" in Oddlands
"Candle and Pins" (Listing only available online) in The Willows
"Lakeside" (Sound file) in Rose & Thorn
Jacqueline's reading of her Pushcart Prize-nominated poem, published by The Rose and Thorn Literary E-zine in their Winter 2005 issue
"Armaros" in Oddlands
"All in a Row" and "Eggshells" (Listing only) in Mythic Delirium Issue 18
"The Calendar of the Dead" in Strange Horizons
"Stratford on Avon" in flashquake
"Groundskeeper at Heptonstall" in St. Ann's Review
"Bread" and "When the Cows Attack" in Heartlands
"Obituary Clipping, in an Envelope" (Print only) in Briar Cliff Review
• Nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize •
"Afternoon Burial, 1931" in Prairie Poetry
“Poem – for Michele Murray” in Barnwood
“What Tools” in Chizine
“Little Ten Fingers” in Prairie Poetry
“The Putting Away" and “March Thaw" (Listing only available online) in Pebble Lake Review
“Without Rain at Trafalgar” (PDF format) in Poetry Midwest
“Scarecrow” (Listing only available online) in Not One of Us
“Lakeside” in The Rose and Thorn
• Nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize •
“Anachronism under King’s Cross” in flashquake
“Life through a Black Net Veil” in The Pedestal Magazine
“Banshee” in Mytholog
“Daughter to Mother” in Children, Churches and Daddies
“Two Travelers” in Children, Churches and Daddies
“Archive” in Hidden Oak
“Strike” in Poetry Motel
“In the Brush Pile…” in Barbaric Yawp
Buy a copy of Candle and Pins from Amazon.com or direct from Hiraeth Publishing
The poems of “Candle and Pins” are inspired by familiar—and some unfamiliar—superstitions, ranging from love charms to burial practices, parsley seeds to the evil eye. Like superstitions themselves, these poems explore the terrain where magic and everyday life intertwine, and where beauty, horror, fear, and belief combine in ways both new and ageless.
- Selected for the preliminary ballot of the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards
- Nominated for the 2018 Elgin Award
"...Eerie and beautifully shivery, like the unexpected caress of a gentle finger on the nape of your neck when you’re alone in the room. I caught myself going “ooh” in out-loud admiration several times during the course of the read, occasionally needing to pause and just sit and reflect and let things sink in. Artful, evocative, clever, gorgeous. Highly recommended!"
"The poems in Candle and Pins breathed life into each superstition which, in turn, added an extra dimension to the entire collection... If you love dark poetry, Candle and Pins is a lovely collection to check out."
- Book Den
"Fears and superstition...make for some beautiful and haunting poetry."
"This is a great bit of horror poetry... Very happy that I came across this collection."
Poetry chapbook published by the University of Wisconsin's Parallel Press.
Jacqueline West draws inspiration from the names, local records, and family stories of a small group of Bohemian immigrants who settled in western Wisconsin's Pierce County in the late 1800s. Known as the Cherma settlement, it was named after the village of Dolní Cermná in the modern-day Czech Republic. West presents a compelling picture of the lives, relationships, and hardships experienced by these immigrants.
Cherma is a 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
West uses pictorial language, helping us into the settlers' experiences: "waiting roots shriveled like finger bones" "the silent curve of her spine / rolling down toward the floor like a broken hill." She never intrudes herself into the stories, making sure not to break the illusions of this world she has created. Anyone who enjoys novels, history and/or the intersection of these two in historical fiction would enjoy these lovely poems. I was reminded especially of Louise Erdrich.
- Sarah Busse, Madison.com
By weaving fragile imagery into the stark tones of these narrative poems, West reveals a multitude of vulnerabilities hidden below her characters' steely resolves. Her careful attention to nuanced detail elevates specific events to universal experience and underscores the gains and losses of a people who have sacrificed much for their admission into American society.
- Rose & Thorn Journal
An engrossing speculation into the ordinary lives of rural Americans, highly recommended to anyone who loves fine poetry.
