Jacqueline Cioffa

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About Jacqueline Cioffa
Jacqueline Cioffa was an international model for 17 years and celebrity makeup artist. She is a dog lover, crystal collector, and Stone Crab enthusiast. Bestselling author of the riveting memoir, The Red Bench: A Descent and Ascent into Madness, and the soul-stirring saga, The Vast Landscape and Georgia Pine, Jacqueline's work has also been widely featured in numerous literary magazines, and anthologies. She's a storyteller, observer, essayist, poet, potty mouth, and film lover who's traveled the world. Living with Manic Depression, she believes passionately in using her voice to advocate and inspire others.
Jacqueline has been featured in TV, radio, literary magazines and magazine articles as well as online forums, including Bridge Street TV, Spectrum News, Fox, Good Day Rochester, Soul-Full Sessions Podcast, The Mighty, BadRedhead Media, and Top 5, Jacqueline Cioffa / I Want To Be Her.
Her mental health memoir, The Red Bench debuted on Amazon in Bipolar Disorder at #1 and Hot New Releases, is a fantastical, visceral roman à clef follows International Model Cioffa's descent into mental illness and bipolar disorder as she struggles to pick up the pieces of her fractured life after a nervous breakdown. Committed to writing for 365 days she finds solace, hope, and strength through a red bench, imagination, the changing seasons and healing power of nature.
Jacqueline Cioffa's forthcoming book, The Shape of Us, Select Poems and Essays, (March, 2020) celebrates all the complexities and authentic beauty of real, everyday women.
"Dedicated to all the women who have made me feel worthy of the sweet, soft miracle it is to be born a girl, in these fast and loud, masculine modern times." - Jacqueline Cioffa
Author Site: Jacqueline Cioffa at jacquelinecioffa.com
Jacqueline writes the column "Bleeding Ink," on Feminine Collective
Follow Jacqueline on social media
INSTAGRAM: @jacquelinecioffa
TWITTER: @JackieCioffa
FACEBOOK: @authorjackiecioffa
Jacqueline has been featured in TV, radio, literary magazines and magazine articles as well as online forums, including Bridge Street TV, Spectrum News, Fox, Good Day Rochester, Soul-Full Sessions Podcast, The Mighty, BadRedhead Media, and Top 5, Jacqueline Cioffa / I Want To Be Her.
Her mental health memoir, The Red Bench debuted on Amazon in Bipolar Disorder at #1 and Hot New Releases, is a fantastical, visceral roman à clef follows International Model Cioffa's descent into mental illness and bipolar disorder as she struggles to pick up the pieces of her fractured life after a nervous breakdown. Committed to writing for 365 days she finds solace, hope, and strength through a red bench, imagination, the changing seasons and healing power of nature.
Jacqueline Cioffa's forthcoming book, The Shape of Us, Select Poems and Essays, (March, 2020) celebrates all the complexities and authentic beauty of real, everyday women.
"Dedicated to all the women who have made me feel worthy of the sweet, soft miracle it is to be born a girl, in these fast and loud, masculine modern times." - Jacqueline Cioffa
Author Site: Jacqueline Cioffa at jacquelinecioffa.com
Jacqueline writes the column "Bleeding Ink," on Feminine Collective
Follow Jacqueline on social media
INSTAGRAM: @jacquelinecioffa
TWITTER: @JackieCioffa
FACEBOOK: @authorjackiecioffa
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Books By Jacqueline Cioffa
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Jacqueline Cioffa ,
Rachel Thompson ,
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Nicole Lyons ,
Stephanie Ortez ,
Dori Owen
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The writers of these poems are award-winning Authors, Journalists, Bloggers, and Activists, while others are previously unknown artists. The poems are a collective made of a global community. The authors are from Australia, Canada, Central America, The United Kingdom, The United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, South Africa and The United States.
Proceeds of Love Notes From Humanity, go to http://lifeafterproject.org which helps provide vital support for suicide prevention.
Proceeds of Love Notes From Humanity, go to http://lifeafterproject.org which helps provide vital support for suicide prevention.
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THE RED BENCH: A DESCENT AND ASCENT INTO MADNESS
Mar 31, 2019
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THE RED BENCH, a fantastical, visceral roman à clef follows International Model Cioffa’s descent into mental illness and bipolar disorder as she struggles to pick up the pieces of her fractured life after a nervous breakdown. Committed to writing for 365 days she finds solace, hope, and strength through a red bench, imagination, the changing seasons and healing power of nature.
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THE SHAPE OF US
Mar 11, 2020
$9.99
The Shape of Us celebrates all the complexities and authentic beauty of real, everyday women. Cioffa’s essays and poems are intimate and relatable, a deep dive into the roles of being female. Unapologetic, triumphant and poignant, Cioffa doesn’t shy away from complex mother-daughter relationships, sexual and physical abuse, body shaming, insecurities, self-worth, and complicated friendships, while celebrating the empowerment and admiration of the delightful and dirty business of being female. Self-discovery, self-love, and pearls of wisdom only discovered after a life in the trenches of modeling, fame, aging, and a nervous breakdown. The Shape of Us boldly asks and answers the question, what it means to be a strong, opinionated, independent woman.
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THE VAST LANDSCAPE
Dec 16, 2013
$3.99
Bold contemporary fiction, The Vast Landscape shares one woman’s journey filled with doubt, mistrust, fame, and self-discovery. Join Harrison on her quest to find inner peace despite the harrowing obstacles placed in her way. Will she succeed in stripping away her complex armor to unmask the flawed, beautiful, and strong iconoclast kept hidden for so long?
Honest to a fault, Jacqueline Cioffa creates a challenging love story sparkling with narrative originality.
Honest to a fault, Jacqueline Cioffa creates a challenging love story sparkling with narrative originality.
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GEORGIA PINE
Feb 1, 2015
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THE VAST LANDSCAPE continues, alive in memory. The gatekeeper, fixer of Harrison’s family, Georgia Pine. Faint whispers drift from the stars into the evergreen, cottage bedroom. The Cove, a mystic beach, granddaughter’s refuge. The sea, sun, stars and moon welcome their return. The crimson child, with blazing hair and fire belly will do as she’s told, not before she’s ready.
Pyre and brimstone, locks of ginger, gut instinct to guide her.
Fans of the emotional, soul stirring first novel will not be able to put this exciting sequel down.
Pyre and brimstone, locks of ginger, gut instinct to guide her.
Fans of the emotional, soul stirring first novel will not be able to put this exciting sequel down.
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Feminine Collective: Raw and Unfiltered Vol 1: Selected Essays and Poems on Relationships with Self and Others
Mar 16, 2017
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Julie Anderson ,
Marla Carlton ,
Jacqueline Cioffa ,
Rachel Thompson ,
Dori Owen ,
C. Streetlights ,
B. Janine Morison
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Feminine Collective: Raw & Unfiltered is a collection of poems and essays about relationships with self and others. Authentic, honest, at times self-deprecating and humorous. First published on FeminineCollective.com from 2014 to 2015, the women (and a few men) bravely share their unfiltered realities.
This collection of nonfiction essays are the voices of new and emerging writers, most of whom were unpublished before Feminine Collective. These carefully selected works represent the first of their kind, in their boldness and subject matter.
This collection of nonfiction essays are the voices of new and emerging writers, most of whom were unpublished before Feminine Collective. These carefully selected works represent the first of their kind, in their boldness and subject matter.
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