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Jacqueline Cioffa

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Auburn, The United States

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Poetry, Memoir, Self Help

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Sylvia Plath F. Scott Fitzgerald John Irving David Foster Wallace
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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 T 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, 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

"Beauty lies in truth, hardcore, from the depths of the soul. Jacqueline Cioffa' takes us there, brave, raw & unfiltered." - Sandra Bernhard

Auburn author, former model, releases fourth book
"Self-discovery, self-love and pearls of wisdom only discovered after a life in the trenches of modeling, fame, aging and a nervous breakdown, Cioffa said." - The Citizen - auburnpub.com/lifestyles/auburn-autho...

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	The Vast Landscape 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Notes From Humanity: The Lust, Love & Loss Collection by Julie Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nicole Lyons (Goodreads Author), John Michael Antonio (Goodreads Author) 4.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Georgia Pine 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feminine Collective: Raw and Unfiltered Vol 1: Selected Essays and Poems on Relationships with Self and Others by Julie Anderson (Goodreads Author), Feminine Collective Media, Rachel Thompson 4.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets and Lies by Julie Anderson, Cee Streetlights (Editor), Jacqueline Cioffa (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE RED BENCH: A DESCENT AND ASCENT INTO MADNESS 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Broken and Blessed

Does God only give you what you can handle?
Bullshit.
I don’t believe that.
We’re all just waking up and putting out little fires every day and everywhere.
Tornadoes. Earthquakes. Viruses.
Aging and death become the season you are thrust into with little preparation.
I’m here.
I’m okay.
I’m strong enough.
Adulting is a fucking bastard.
Adulting with a mental illness is exhausting.
I have been quiet becaus

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The Year of Living Miraculously: Taking Your Life From Ordinary to Extraordinary

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“So it began, the living escape. The writer’s life. Limits left at the door, with muddy boots, grace and undiscovered fantastical, far away lands. Intrigue exists, beyond the confines of four, suffocating walls. The flawed, vulnerable, messy, selfish heroine makes human mistakes, yet we forgive her. We recognize the broken pieces in ourselves, her honesty forces a hard look in the mirror. Characters become real, we picture them with our own eyes, hear their voices, empathize with their story. We root them on. When the writer does their job well, we love them, never wanting to say good-bye.”
― Jacqueline Cioffa, The Vast Landscape

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“We are all disabled, broken parts, lost individuals, trying to find our way. Truth is what you know, here and happening now. There is only love and love is the bravest character of all.”
― Jacqueline Cioffa, Georgia Pine

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“Some of us are born plain unlucky, helplessly watching others sail through. When tragedy strikes, those ‘lucky bastards’ won’t have a fucking clue what to do, paralyzed by fear.”
― Jacqueline Cioffa, The Vast Landscape

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Jacqueline’s Quotes

“I want to live simple. I want orange and red leaves and high school football and small town life. I want to erase the days lived in the hollow and free my mind and body from the trickery of a fast life. I am throwing out the Gucci shoes and Prada bags and the heavy burden and the in crowd.”
― Jacqueline Cioffa, THE RED BENCH: A DESCENT AND ASCENT INTO MADNESS

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“I look out at the sad, pre-conditioned faces and am returned to the lost feelings. I taste the screams building up in my throat, the hurling accusations. I immediately remove myself from the physical tantrums and refuse the same old, same old destructive patterns. I will not curl up in fetal position on the bathroom floor, my sobs drenching the carpet. I practice deep breathing and kind thinking.”
― Jacqueline Cioffa, THE RED BENCH: A DESCENT AND ASCENT INTO MADNESS

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“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell

tags: writing

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“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

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