Jackie Bluu is a poet and essayist. She received a BA in Anthropology at SUNY Purchase and a Masters in Publishing at Pace University. During the week, she works as a lifestyle book publicist at Flatiron Books, and on weekends she edits The Writer’s Den, a weekly (sometimes biweekly) newsletter for writers and other raw humans.
Jackie has been published in Emotional Alchemy Magazine, Jawbreaker Zine, Thought Catalog, Awakenings, Laurels & Bells Literary Journal, Journal of Expressive Writing, Ponder Savant, Polemical Zine and Humankind Zine. She has published two chapbooks, Facing the Beast (Jan 2019) and My Dear Melancholia (May 2020), a full-length poetry book, (Not) Another Love Story (Nov 2020), and most recently an anthology titled Letters I’ll Never Send (Dec 2023).
She lives in Bayonne, NJ with her assortment of pet-friendly plants, with no pets.