About me
Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist. She is also a psychologist. She is a New Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of things, including house painting, freelance photography, journalism, clerking in a health food store, and directing a traveling troupe of high school puppeteers.Primarily a novelist, she also writes essays (Modern Love, The Writer, and Edible Pioneer Valley) travel pieces, and has been a commentator for Public Radio in Western Massachusetts and Albany, NY. Her novels include, The Comet’s Tale, was based on the life of Sojourner Truth, Lost & Found, Now & Then, Picture This, The Center of the World, and The Tiger in the House. Her books have been translated into eight different languages. She is the recipient of fellowships at MacDowell, Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, Jentel Arts in Wyoming, and Turkeyland Cove on Martha’s Vineyard. She teaches writing workshops through Writers in Progress in Florence, Massachusetts, and at international retreats. Her seventh novel, The Camp Muralist, will be published in November 2026.
