Jacque GorelickJacque Gorelick is a former elementary school teacher who spent decades working with chil-dren and families before becoming a freelance writer. After spending her fractured childhood searching for belonging, Jacque pursued degrees in psychology and eucation at San Francisco State University. She has always been fascinated by how family shapes and defines us and how we ultimately choose to define it for ourselves. Her essays exploring the complexities of identity, motherhood, and the search for belonging have appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, HAD, Healthy Women, HuffPost and oth-ers. A California native, Jacque has lived all over the West Coast, from Santa Barbara to Alaska. Now 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. Visit: jacquegorelick.com. Read More Read Less