Awards & Stuff

• Gullkistan resident, Iceland

• Craigardan resident, New York

• Peninsula Press Club, Best Feature

• Box Literary Journal’s fiction prize for “Crawling”

• Quartz Literary Journal fiction contest semifinalist

• Past president of California College Media Assoc.

• Current member of The Writer’s Grotto

• CAL-JEC Educator of the Year

• CNPA, General Excellence at Palo Alto Weekly

• SPJ, James Madison Award

About

Bay Area-based writer & journalism educator.

Jennifer Christgau Aquino is an award-winning writer of journalism, essays, poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction. Her career began in community journalism as a staff writer covering all machinations of a city from schools and planning commissions to newsmakers. As a newspaper reporter and editor, she worked for The Stockton Record, The San Jose Mercury News and The Bay Area News Group, among others.

As a freelancer she has written for Houzz, Bay Area Parent, The Mama’s Guide, Patch.com, The Six Fifty and more.

Her literary work recently appeared in University of Iowa’s Examined Life, Wild Roof Journal, Third Wednesday, BrainChild, The Dime Show Review and HerStry. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing and an undergraduate degree in journalism, both from San Francisco State.

She is currently working on her first novel and teaching as an adjunct professor of media studies at College of San Mateo. Fun fact: She owns a 500 acre farm in Minnesota.

She writes, teaches, watches the fog roll in, puzzles, plays tennis and talks way too much to her cat from the Bay Area home she shares with her husband, two children, four chickens, and a vintage trailer she will someday refurbish.