Jennifer Christgau-Aquino is an award-winning journalist who writes poetry from her Northern California home. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing and an undergraduate degree in journalism.
She’s the recipient of Box Literary Journal’s Fiction Prize for her short story “Crawling”, which was a semifinalist in Quartz Literary Journal’s Fiction contest. Her work has appeared in Wild Roof Journal, The Magnolia Review, Third Wednesday, The Dime Show Review, BrainChild, The Huffington Post, and more. She was a 2024 Gullkistan resident in January of 2024 and a 2022 Craigardan resident.
She started writing when newspapers and printing presses were a thing, reporting and editing for The Stockton Record, The San Jose Mercury News and The Bay Area News Group covering murders, fires, militias, school finances, and all other machinations of a city’s life.
Her fiction writing is inspired by her years as a journalist examining issues from every angle. Currently, she’s working on her first novel.
To support her writing addiction, she works as an adjunct professor of media studies. She teaches at College of San Mateo, and has taught at San Jose State University and Notre Dame de Namur University. She was president of the California College Media Association for two years, supporting the growth and stability of collegiate journalism education throughout the state. In 2015 she was honored as CAL-JEC’s journalism educator of the year.
She writes, plays too much tennis, parents, and plots her next adventure from her Bay Area home where she lives with her husband and two children.
Jennifer as a child with her late father, a journalist, poet, playwright and author. Read his work here.
