Jaclyn Dwyer has published fiction and poetry in a number of literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Sugar House Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, and Witness. She earned an MFA from the University of Notre Dame where she received a Sparks Fellowship and a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University where she received a Kingsbury Fellowship. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Malone University in Ohio, where she lives with her husband and daughters.

Books by Jaclyn Dwyer:

Other poems on the web by Jaclyn Dwyer:
"Blackberrying After Ballet"
Two poems
"Love Poem Without Love in It"
"The Fire"
"Ode to Bobs, Breasts, and Beauty"
"Fever Baby"
"Freight"

Jaclyn Dwyer's Website.

Jaclyn Dwyer on Twitter.

About The Bride Aflame:

"Jaclyn Dwyer's The Bride Aflame explores-with imagination, earned wisdom, and searing wit—what it means to be a woman: to be a girl in her inescapable body; to be a lover and a wife; to be a daughter and then to raise them. These poems confront the worst horrors of womanhood—domestic violence, rape, the loss of a child—but they also revel in its possibilities. As Dwyer writes, 'I make and I am.' This is a mantra for mother and poet alike."
—Maggie Smith

"Girls, women, wives, daughters—Jaclyn Dwyer investigates what it is to be female in this moment in time. Her language is lush, words cascading and undulating in images that paint a world in all its terrible beauty. But we have to look because fire illuminates as it burns, and Dwyer's women are on fire with being anorectics, zombies, someone who will stub a lit cigarette on her own hand. They are exes, brides, and finally mothers, creating a new body of flesh out of the old. A gorgeous debut."
—Barbara Hamby

"The poems in THE BRIDE AFLAME are fierce, tuned in equal measure to the sensual and the violent. In this smart, unforgiving, and at times savage book, the body takes center stage, demanding its pleasures, its pains, and its refusals. If damage is how we measure the beauty left behind, then Jaclyn Dwyer knows the world's tally better than anyone."
—Rebecca Hazelton