Jackie Braje is a Brooklyn based poet, a friend of poets, educator, and arts administrator. She serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Poetry Society of New York, a 501(c)-3 non-profit that produces a number of initiatives to make poetry culturally relevant, fun, and inclusive. She also serves as the Managing Director of the New York City Poetry Festival, a free, annual event on Governors Island that attracts upwards of 14,000 poets & poetry lovers each year. With Stephanie Berger, she co-founded Milk Press—the publishing arm of PSNY— and serves as the Editorial Director.

Her work has been published or featured by The Adirondack Center for Writing, VOLT, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn Poets, Free People, the Minnesota Review, the Oakland Review, the Westchester Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Statorec, the Quarterless Review, the Nottingham Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere.

She was the Allerton Park Fall ‘22 Artist-in-Residence, a 2022 artist-in-residence with the 4heads initiative on Governors Island, and the recipient of a 2022 Himan Brown Award. She teaches workshops at Poets House, and she received her MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College, where she also teaches as an adjunct poetry & creative writing professor. She has presented and performed for organizations like The Met Opera, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Film Forum, and more.