Jackie Sheeler is a native New Yorker, an award-winning poet, and a renegade. Her first collection of poems, The Memory Factory, won the Magellan Prize in 2002. Her second book, Off the Cuffs, an anthology of police poetry, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2003 to rave reviews. Jackie founded the Poetz.com website and hosts a weekly reading series at the Cornelia Street Café. She has performed all over the country, on radio and TV, and appears frequently as part of the minAsian collectiVe, a five-piece wordmusic art band.
Her work was featured in Midnight Mind Number Six.