Jacquelyn ShahJacquelyn "Jacsun" Shah was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, but moved to New Jersey after marriage and completed an A.B. at Rutgers University, M.A. at Drew University, both in English literature. Relocating to Texas, she earned both MFA and PhDin creative writing and English literature at the University of Houston. Founder of WAVE, Women Against Violence Everywhere (now defunct) and founding member of Voices Breaking Boundaries, an arts organization, she also edited a small journal, Encodings, for a few years. A pacifist, she stands against domination and violence of all kinds, and served on a steering committee that organized a summit on crimes against women in 1992, sponsored by the city of Houston and its police department. Formerly employed in creative writing teaching and university adjunct work, she plays now-independently, industriously, enraptured!-with words, forging poetry and non-fiction. In 2009 she purchased a small house on the Cincinnati street where she grew up, using it as a writer's retreat for six years to complete a collage-hybrid-memoir, which she hopes to publish soon. Meanwhile, she has work forthcoming in four journals and one full-length book, as well as the poems in Small Fry. Read More Read Less