Jacqui Devaney’s writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Creative Independent, Porter House Review, Dispatches Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, and Discogs. Last year, she was named a finalist for Michigan Quarterly Review’s James A. Winn prize in Nonfiction. She is at work on a novel and lives in Austin, Texas.

In 2025, she attended the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference for fiction. In 2024, she was selected for a Writing by Writers Residency in Breckenridge, Colorado and was an inaugural participant for A Public Space’s weekend writer’s retreat.

You can read more about her reading and writing life in an interview she did for Petya K. Grady’s newsletter, A Reading Life.

Every week in her newsletter, Dinner Music, Jacqui sends a selection of left-field grooves and retro gems that blends unpretentious charm with her deep love for discovery and storytelling. After dinner, you’ll find her out and about as half of the DJ duo Horse Opera. In 2024 and 2025, they played Seismic Dance Event. In 2025, they played the DJ Mag SXSW party, opening for TSHA. They are residents for the Might Be Magic party series, hosted by Claudia Hernandez and DJ/producer Brett Johnson. In addition to being staples in the Austin night life scene, they’ve played in New York and San Francisco.

You can read more about Dinner Music and Jacqui’s philosophy’s on music in an interview she did with Anne Helen Petersen’s Culture Study newsletter.

During the day, she works as a content designer at Atlassian.