Jax Connelly

Jax Connelly brings 15 years of editorial experience to their role as lead editor at Klaviyo. They started their career doing SEO at a small digital ad agency and spent most of their twenties managing a financial magazine for a trade association based in Washington, DC. Most recently, they studied and taught writing at Columbia College Chicago during the peak years of the pandemic. Outside of their day job, Jax is an award-winning creative writer who has received 4 Notables in the Best American Essays series, honors from Red Hen Press and AWP, and residencies from the Ragdale Foundation and VCCA. Jax lives in Chicago.