Jerilynn is a Puerto Rican writer from the Raritan Bayshore of New Jersey. She received her M.F.A. in Fiction from Temple University and is now a Ph.D. candidate in English and Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University.

She has received an Academy of American Poets University Prize, a Hedgebrook Writing Residency, and an AWP Intro Journals Award in Nonfiction. Her essays appear in Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, Booth, Gulf Coast, and others. Her poetry and fiction appear in The Journal, Passages North, and elsewhere.

She is currently working on a memoir about complicated grief.