Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou was born in Oldham near Manchester in 1961. She was educated at Bluecoat School in Oldham and subsequently studied management accounting whilst living in Cyprus. During this time Jacqueline developed her creative writing skills by writing short stories and poems which were published in various anthologies and ‘best’ magazine.
In 1993 Jacqueline began to run creative writing workshops for Oldham Borough Council, bringing creative writing skills to teenagers living in a disadvantaged social and educational area. This prompted an interest in identity construction and narratives and in 1995 Jacqueline embarked on a BSc Honours degree in order to hone her understanding of how people operate their identity in the world.
After graduating with a 2:1 in psychology in 1999, Jacqueline went on to postgraduate study at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her expertise lies in the field of identity construction and she has spent five years in research and attained a doctorate in November 2007. Jacqueline has written extensively on identity construction and contributed a chapter to a recent collaboration of eminent narrative psychologists in Narrative, Memory and Knowledge: Representations, Aesthetics and Contexts. Jacqueline feels that her academic and life experience to date positions her ideally in the observation of life and provides the skills to narrate this in detail.
Jacqueline lives in Oldham with her partner Eric and their dog. Jacqueline works as a writer and rsearch consultant in Manchester and writes short stories and novels about ‘real’ women grounded in their ‘real’ lives. She also works on a consultancy basis as editorial for a safety and reliability publication. Her hobbies include circle-chasing, webpage authoring and postmodern charcoal drawing.