Bio:
Jasmine Vallejo-Love is a queer disabled Afro-Boricua Poet, Writer, Coach, and HR Executive raised in the South Bronx and living in Los Angeles. On good health days, she stows away to write about a lot of things but mostly her formative experiences growing up as a xennial in NYC, her ancestors, her chosen familia, finding love, her challenges and triumphs in corporate America, living with multiple disabilities, and social issues such as domestic violence, mental illness, addiction, and sexual assault. A Diana Woods Memorial Award finalist, her work is published or forthcoming in Lunch Ticket, Southland Alibi, Cholla Needles, and Free Your Voice: Brandeis Women’s Publication.
Publications
Essays
Breaking the Comb Ceiling, published in Lunch Ticket, December 2024
Her Name was Doña Nana, forthcoming in the Southland Alibi 2025
Poetry
Forthcoming in Cholla Needles in May 2025
Six Poems: “A Gentle Push to Persevere.” “Existential Crisis.” “Butterfly Cinquain for a Burning LA.” “Sole Breadwinner.” “Cerulean Heart.” “For the Puerto Rican Servicemen Who Lost Their Lives in the Aftermath of 9/11.”
Free Your Voice: Brandeis Women’s Publication
Fall 2003 Issue: “Dead Beat.” “Forgotten Monogamy.” “Sitting Jury Duty in the Bronx.” “And the Beat Goes On.”
Spring 2003 Issue: “M14.” “Peppermint Patties.” “Endometriosis.”
Fall 2002 Issue: “Discovering.” “Parallel.” “When I was a Little Girl.” On the Line.” “Mi Sangre.” “Stretched.”
Spring 2002 Issue: “My Sisters. “Puanani Poet.” “Fuerte.”