JACQUELINE BOULDEN is the 2023 IPPY (Independent Press) Gold Award Winner for Best Regional Fiction, Mid-Atlantic, for Her Past Can't Wait. Her debut novel was also named a finalist in two categories of the 2022 American Fiction Awards: General Fiction Mystery/Suspense and General Fiction Thriller. A Journalism and Public Relations graduate of Utica University, she's won Emmy awards for her TV news reporting and Telly awards for writing and producing educational, corporate, and documentary videos. Jacqueline made several career moves around the country covering politics in Washington, D.C., NASA and the space shuttle program in Florida (including the Challenger accident), and fighting the wind for control of her hats during live shots in hurricanes and blizzards while working in Orlando and Philadelphia.
Jacqueline lives in upstate New York with her spouse and their rescue dog, who’s teaching them how to speak Beaglish. When not writing, she can be found wandering the garden, taking photos of the dog, or reading, reading, reading.