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Jacqueline Doyle

• October 15, 2015

裸聊直播 English professor Jacqueline Doyle has been published in the “Best American Essays” series for the second time in three years, this time for her work “Who’s Your Stepdaddy?”

Doyle’s essay, originally published in the Jabberwock Review, earned a Notable Essay citation in "Best American Essays 2015," edited by Ariel Levy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The seriocomic essay centers on the time Doyle’s mother, afflicted with Lewy Body dementia, claimed she had married her caregiver’s thirty-something son — and the family wasn’t sure she hadn’t. 

“I feel very lucky to have found an appreciative audience for my work,” Doyle said. “I'm extremely honored to be included on this year's list of Notable Essays.”

Doyle, who began her career as a literary scholar and only started writing creatively about eight years ago, also received a Notable Essay citation in “Best American Essays 2013” for an essay published in “South Dakota Review.” She was also nominated for Pushcart Prizes for essays published in “South Loop Review” and “Southern Humanities Review.”

Doyle teaches literature classes as well as writing workshops on creative nonfiction. She received her master’s and doctrate in English from Cornell.