A storyteller at heart, Jaclyn Maria Fowler comes from a long line of raconteurs and wanderers who all trace their lineage back to Ireland. She travels to write and writes to travel, and following in the footsteps of her ancestors, she tells the stories of Ireland and the Irish diaspora. To pay for her obsession, she works as the Department Chair of English at American Public University System (APUS). She is the author of Today’s Rain, Tomorrow’s Whiskey, Jack: The Almost True Story of the Molly Maguires, It is Myself that I Remake, and No One Radiates Love Alone. Her short fiction has appeared in many award-winning anthologies, including the 2020 Colorado Book Award winning anthology (“The Other Day I Found a Penny in the Street”) and the Wanderlust Best of ‘20 anthology (“Women of the Desert”). She presented her short autobiographical sketch, “In the Summer Before Third Grade,” at the 2022 West Cork Literary Festival, after placing in the Fish Anthology memoir contest. Fowler’s memoir of her time living in the Middle East, 10,000 Things: A Memoir in Stories, will be published by Europe Books in late 2026.