Jaclyn Moyer

Jaclyn Moyer is the author of On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family from Punjab to California, winner of the 2025 Oregon Book Award. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The Atlantic, High Country News, Orion, Guernica, Ninth Letter and elsewhere. Originally from northern California’s Sierra Foothills, she currently lives in Corvallis, Oregon with her partner and two young children. Read more about her work at jaclynmoyer. com.