JacquelinCangro

For nearly twenty years, I have worked at Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster in the young readers divisions of both houses. Before coming to book publishing, I was the editor-in-chief of a monthly trade journal.

I served as editor for my first book, The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York (Plume), which contains 27 essays about the New York City subway system written by well-known straphangers such as Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Calvin Trillin, and Francine Prose. The collection received print reviews nationally, and I appeared on a variety of broadcast media outlets such as CBS Morning News, NY1 and NPR.

My short fiction has been published in the literary journals Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Cortland Review, and The Macguffin. My essays and other non-fiction writing have appeared in Preservation Online, Prick of the Spindle, Narrative.ly, and History-Magazine, among others. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Georgia State University.

I’ve taught creative writing for fifteen years in person at the College of New Rochelle and online at The Loft Literary Center.