Jennifer Christgau-Aquino is an award-winning journalist who writes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, journalism and works as an adjunct professor of media studies 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 2022 Craigardan resident and will travel to Iceland for a monthlong International residency at Gulkistan in 2024.
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 book. She teaches part time at College of San Mateo, and has taught at San Jose State University and Notre Dame de Namur University in the Mass Communications & Journalism departments. She was president of the California College Media Association for two years, supporting the growth and stability of collegiate journalism education throughout the state.
She writes, runs muddy trails, and helps manage the family’s Minnesota farm 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.
