Jax Connelly

Jax Connelly (they/she) is an award-winning writer whose creative nonfiction explores the intersections of queer identity, unstable bodies, and mental illness. Four of their essays have received Best American Essays notables, and they’ve been a winner or finalist in writing contests at Prairie Schooner, Nowhere, The Pinch, Fourth Genre, New Letters, and Black Warrior Review, among others. Her work has also appeared in The Rumpus, PANK, Hunger Mountain, Pleiades, The Water~Stone Review, and more.