Feature of the Day: Jacqueline Valencia

Caring Imagination Advisor

I am pleased that Jacqueline Valencia is one of the advisors for the Caring Imagination. Jacqueline has been a great sounding board for my plans and dreams for the Caring Imagination, a site that offers resources to creators and cultural workers who wish to make art with compassion. Jacqueline is one of the most compassionate people I know.

I urge you to support the AngelHousePress Caring Imagination Crowd Funding Campaign this year to help us pay our contributors to NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O this year.

Jacqueline Valencia (she/they) is a Toronto-based writer, essayist, and activist who earned her Honours BA in English at the University of Toronto.  Jacqueline is the organizer of the 2015 Toronto Poetry Talks: Racism and Sexism in the Craft. She is a project partner at Poetry inPrint and editor of Watch Your Head, and manygenderedmothers.  She is also the founding editor of Critical Focus and blogger at http://humblelittlepets.com.
DJing channel on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/djjacquelineto
Her short films: https://vimeo.com/user59381072

She is a (bi)racial Latine of Colombian heritage. Her literary themes include (but are not limited to): conceptual experimentation, loss, racism, physical space, feminism, and decolonization. She teaches workshops of decolonization and how to write without harm at Catapult and inPrint Collective, and is a first reader at Augur Magazine.

Her books include Lilith (Desert Pets Press, 2018), There Is No Escape Out Of Time (Insomniac Press, 2016), Ulysses (No Press, 2014), The Octopus Complex (LyricalMyrical Press, 2013), Maybe (Lulu, 2012) and Treatise (Lulu, 2010).

There is much more to say about Jacqueline. She is a renaissance person, talented and prolific, while being a compassionate and caring parent and human being.

Please visit the Caring Imagination site for resources toward compassionate and equitable practices that intersect with race, culture, class, disability, gender, and sexual orientation. If you have additional links to offer, please let me know.

Our crowd funding campaign is part of the Caring Imagination’s initiative to make, produce and distribute art with compassion. Thank you to those who have supported the campaign this year and last. Thanks to you we have been able to pay 40 contributors in 2022 and if we reach our target, we will do the same this year. You can visit the crowd funding campaign here.