Jacqueline Clay Chester, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, to parents from rural Georgia. Always in high school in Manhattan, she was awarded an art scholarship to the prestigious Art Students League in NYC. Jacqueline is also a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, and while there she was selected as a runway model for the American National Exhibition in Moscow. In 2014 she published her memoir “Black Girl in Moscow, a Memoir,” about her seven weeks as a model in the then Soviet Union. Later she married and while raising her three children she pursued her passion to write and produce plays; design jewelry which sold for several years in the High Museum in Atlanta and paint and sculpt. Jacqueline, is widowed and has lived in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1998