Jacqueline Lisa Berger (born November 30, 1960)[1] is an American poet and director of the graduate English program at Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) in California.
"[5] In the mid-2000s, she participated in the Changing Lives Through Literature program, teaching prisoners at the San Mateo Women's Correctional Facility.
[8] American author Alberto Ríos, the final judge at the Bluestem competition, described Mythologies of Danger as "poems of immediate human energy and willful edge...Always bold but always thoughtful too...a smart, compelling move into the speaker's world of charged moments, sparks, which here are always dangerous and ingenuously engaging.
[9] In Things That Burn, Berger uses narrative poetry to explore the ambient nature of feeling: "I want to use both story and language to enter the place where experience is atmospheric—the blue or red smoke of the soul, if you will.
It's a very strange and mysterious and unconscious process...you have weird dreams that appear out of left field and we don't control it.