Jacqueline Berkman is a fiction writer, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright.

Jackie graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned an MFA from Lesley University. The short film “Panofsky’s Complaint” based on her short story “Picking Locks” was screened at the Cannes Short Film Corner, the Brooklyn Short Film Festival, and LA Shorts Fest. Her one-act play “Rattled” premiered as part of Public Assembly’s “Baby Teeth” show to a sold-out crowd of 200+ people. Her nonfiction essay “The Mother is Me” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and her short fiction has been published in Made in L.A. Volume 6, The Coachella Review, and The Write Launch, among other publications.

She resides in Los Angeles with her husband Jak and daughter Jillian, otherwise known as the “J-Crew.”