https://www.jacquegorelick.com/about daily 0.75 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/88ccb697-98cc-4e5f-b79d-5081079f1283/author+photo+%28green+shirt+creek%29.jpg About Me Jacque Gorelick is a California native who has moved too many times to count. She’s lived all over the West Coast from Santa Barbara to Alaska. Now firmly rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, she lives beside a creek under redwood trees with her husband, two boys, and a mélange of rescues. Before freelance writing, she spent two decades as an elementary school teacher helping students turn ideas into stories. Her debut memoir is about hearts (medical and metaphorical) and discovering—through a traumatic medical event and motherhood—the meaning of home. https://www.jacquegorelick.com/essays daily 0.75 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/1736826700685-C8PDE7P20P5GU5W2NOM5/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-25%2Bat%2B9.04.07%2BPM.jpg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/0cfecbab-8acc-4741-a73f-a4ff04d3aeff/Screen+Shot+2025-02-11+at+12.53.28+PM.png Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/1582440023483-H2726P6EW2I8R5DT1QCX/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-02-22%252Bat%252B10.20.36%252BPM.jpg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/d702d9a4-4470-43c5-89ff-9acc80926adc/Screen+Shot+2025-02-11+at+12.54.54+PM.png Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/1736826803081-0OU88ECFFY4FI2N0FONT/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-22%2Bat%2B10.54.32%2BPM.jpg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/5f79f26c-813b-4e1d-aa18-5904fbe5f171/Screen+Shot+2025-02-11+at+12.56.51+PM.png Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/1736826832865-X4MOZQXVBZNGLZDC0G1E/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-02-22%252Bat%252B10.56.21%252BPM.jpg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/9ef054b8-670b-4646-ac1f-eb575bd102c4/Screen+Shot+2025-02-11+at+12.58.37+PM.png Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/b2feb0ee-397f-4979-a8dd-5f77536ca287/Screen+Shot+2025-01-22+at+2.45.19+PM.png Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/0fa94e1d-17e9-45d3-b3ee-fb68d21e5f36/Untitled+copy+14.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/a6141667-c70a-498e-ac1a-caa6ad5c0a37/Screen+Shot+2026-06-15+at+10.40.12+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/254a3417-4e1e-4a1b-bea0-4c483b1aef4e/The+International+Journal+of+Literature%2C+Culture%2C+and+the+Arts.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/0bf1c242-1a7d-4fb4-9521-979186ba984c/A+LIFE+IN+PIECES+by+Jacque+Gorelick++X-R-A-Y.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/11f4b36a-e567-4bdb-b914-1933c5f1d493/Screen+Shot+2025-01-13+at+3.58.16+PM.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/f5577a1b-1c51-4708-b63e-a25ae1e9604c/Screen+Shot+2025-01-13+at+4.00.55+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/0ffc0687-fb15-4c63-8d4e-a7cc55232d74/Screen+Shot+2025-01-13+at+4.01.27+PM.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/0a1eb048-7041-4818-8bf7-91140acaeea7/Screen+Shot+2025-01-13+at+4.45.48+PM.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/e96a7e7c-a3db-49ad-bb73-aaf1abe23a59/Screen+Shot+2025-01-13+at+5.42.00+PM.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/25babf39-f631-4fe9-8f84-2c550c5ab50e/Screen+Shot+2025-01-13+at+5.58.23+PM.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/d1789b3b-fdb1-43f4-ba78-512214826811/Screen+Shot+2025-01-13+at+6.10.06+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/e1b16ed2-ca8d-4212-a7f8-459bafea6977/Screen+Shot+2025-01-13+at+7.28.54+PM.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/5306371e-04fb-4db5-880e-45c4df57dc89/Screen+Shot+2025-01-13+at+7.46.04+PM.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/a911576b-4e4a-44fd-8007-f14897f08d1a/Screen+Shot+2025-01-22+at+2.05.38+PM.png https://www.jacquegorelick.com/new-page daily 1.0 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/59a599c0-a1dc-4786-8dcc-f730bdb4484d/Map+of+a+Heart+3D+3.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/9028fdc8-f51b-4530-84e3-69b8bbed461a/download-1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/1aece32b-db12-4355-9345-89b3e95d02e5/download.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/b1b62db7-1a2b-47ca-a7af-0de95dbf8e95/images.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/35e0e0ff-ea5e-439c-959b-8f2d95313adf/download.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/a7798994-3b07-46fe-841d-5ca6a84b24b7/Author+Photo+%28blue+shirt+sitting%29.jpg Map of a Heart Jacque Gorelick’s essays about motherhood, health, family, and estrangement appear in The New York Times, Salon, The Washington Post, Newsweek, HuffPost, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, HAD, Healthy Women, and other publications. Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home—medical memoir, family reckoning, and love story—is available now. (Vine Leaves Press, February 2026) https://www.jacquegorelick.com/contact-1-1 daily 0.75 2025-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/84255b1c-ae4e-4721-9b0e-2d4c04389a0a/markus-winkler-_nvKjg0aliA-unsplash.jpg Contact Me - Make it stand out Photo by Markus Winkler https://www.jacquegorelick.com/heartmatters daily 0.75 2025-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5185b360130b036805b2b7/e36cb5b1-7f8b-4b7d-8d67-574a7f3b9d91/Heartmatters+-+Banner+1702+x+630.jpg