Jerilynn is a Puerto Rican writer from New Jersey. She is a first-generation and nontraditional student who completed her undergraduate degree at College of Charleston. She then received her MFA in Fiction from Temple University and now holds a PhD in English with a primary focus in Creative Nonfiction from Oklahoma State University.

Support for her work includes 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 after sudden loss.