poetry
prose
photography
other
education
degrees
workshops
performance & exhibition
performance art
readings by invitation
other
misc.
talks
awards + honors
press
poetry
prose
photography
other
education
degrees
workshops
performance & exhibition
performance art
readings by invitation
other
misc.
talks
awards + honors
press
, poet
Jade Cruz Quinn is a Los Angeles*-based poet and interdisciplinary writer whose work explores the sacred and profane as inseparable. Using divinatory poetics and post-traumatic reimagining, she makes ritual out of whatever remains. Her work has been showcased at the Philosophical Research Society, New Orleans Poetry Festival, and art spaces throughout North America. She is a former Skid Row community aid worker and educator, now working as a professional writer and designer. She believes in writing as resurrection and in poetry as both compass and altar—a means of reclaiming sovereignty. She writes for those who live at the threshold of change.
*Tovaangar, unceded Gabrielino-Tongva lands
forthcoming
“red,” Strip Mall Magazine, 2026
recent
Short film screening with live poetry reading: Venus, “The Unseen: An Afternoon of Shorts featuring Maya Deren’s The Witch’s Cradle,” The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, 2025
Poetry reading: Stories Cafe & Books, Los Angeles, CA, 2025
Butoh performance: SYZYGEAN by Neoma, presented by Raze the Whitebox, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, 2025
publications
poetry
“red,” Strip Mall Magazine, 2026 “anti-panic,” SYZYGEAN, Neoma, 2025 “Untitled,” ÖMËGÄ, Metatron Press, 2017 “How to Eat Yourself,” Spilled Milk, no.7, 2017 “Who Brought the Storm,” ExPat Press, 2017 “Undertow,” ExPat Press, 2017 “Over, “HEAVY ATHLETICS, 2016 “Shadow on Bone,” HEAVY ATHLETICS, 2016 “please open a door for me,” ÖMËGÄ, Metatron Press, 2016 “The Sinking,” Helix Syntax: The 41st Summer Writing Program Magazine, Naropa University, 2015 “Three Untitled Poems,” LuNaMoPoLiS no.3: On Your Person, The Lune, 2015 “Pause for Your Mortality”, The Lune, 2015 “Three-Liners” and “Capital Heist,” THWARP SHORTS 3.2, Semicolon, 2014 “Commentary on a Tibetan Book,” LuNaMoPoLiS no.2: Please Do Touch, The Lune, 2014 “Untitled,” LuNaMoPoLiS no.2: Please Do Touch, The Lune, 2014Chapbook: gills in rain gutters, Kavyayantra Press, 2013 Excerpt from Landlocked Madness, The Riddles We Talked In, Semicolon, 2013 “Where Trains Divide,” Heart-Lipped Spider, Semicolon, 2012
prose
“My Size Dancing Barbie,” Voices, (b)OINK, 2017“Jade Cruz Quinn's ‘of topological shift,’” Boulder Tattoo Project, 2014
photography
Album cover: Lanair’s Flower in Zurich, Chris Siders, 2024Hands, Morning/Mourning, Le Petit Press, 2018 Wendy C. Ortiz, fields, 2017Matt Clifford, Ballad of Todd Last Year, Cherry Publications, 2017CAConrad, fields, 2016 Mira Gonzalez, fields, 2016
other
Interview with CAConrad, fields, 2016 J’Lyn Chapman with J. Hillis Miller, The Conversant, 2013Fail Better, Shambhala Times Community News Magazine, 2014
education
degrees
Master of Fine Arts Candidate in Creative Writing
Mount Saint Mary’s University
Los Angeles, CA
2017
Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Literature
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University
Boulder, CO
2015
Studied under Anne Waldman, Jack Collom, CAConrad, Bhanu Kapil, Eleni Sikelianos, Tim Z. Hernandez, and others
workshops, courses, & seminars
“Space Pharmacy,” Tilted House, New Orleans, LA
Cameron Lovejoy, 2026
(W)rites of Passage, Boulder, CO
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, 2022–2024
Selah Saterstrom, 2021
CAConrad, May 2021
Four Queens, Denver, CO
Selah Saterstrom, 2022
CAConrad, 2022
“The Artist’s Way,” ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2021
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo, 2021
Will O’Loughlen, 2021
The Home School, Hudson, NY
TC Tolbert, 2021 Kundiman, New York, NY
Nayomi Munaweera, 2021 Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka, 2017Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Boulder, CO
CAConrad, 2015–2016
Kameron Bashi, 2015
Eleni Sikelianos, 2015
Letterpress printing with Aaron Cohick, 2015
performance & exhibition
performance art
Butoh performance: SYZYGEAN by Neoma, presented by Raze the Whitebox, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, 2025“Normal Dinner Party” with Jeremy Kennedy, Collective Arts Incubator, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
readings by invitation
Short film screening with live poetry reading: Venus, “The Unseen: An Afternoon of Shorts featuring Maya Deren’s The Witch’s Cradle,” The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, 2025
Stories Cafe & Books, Los Angeles, CA, 2025
California State University, Los Angeles, CA, 2019“I’m Alive In Los Angeles,” Letters to My City Release Party with Mike Sonsken, Poetry at the Space, Los Angeles, CA, 2019“The Cosmic Collective: A Group Poetry Reading,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans Healing Center, New Orleans, LA, 2019“Poetry at the Ben Montgomery Mile,” Zephyr Community Art Studio, Santa Fe, NM, 2018
Guest Artist appointment with musical accompaniment by Paddy Pearse, “Manifesting Visions,” Aware Project, Collective HQ/Counterpunch Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
audio
Vocals: My Addiction, FemNova, 2021Radio show: Show hosted by Jeremy Kennedy, KCHUNG, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
film
Short film screening with live poetry reading: Venus, “The Unseen: An Afternoon of Shorts featuring Maya Deren’s The Witch’s Cradle,” The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, 2025
Short film: Please Open A Door for Me, 2018 (Writer, producer, director)
Video: “A Rusted Rail,” 30/30 Poetic Vision, Jack Kerouac School, 2015
exhibition
Photography: dear friend and murder suite, NYCorrespondence, Kickstarter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
talks
Workshop: “How to Read the Tarot Without Guidebooks,” Public Fruit Co., 2021Panel: “The Braided River,” Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, 2015
awards + honors
Please Open A Door For Me, New Industry Finalist, Oaxaca FilmFest, 2019Amiri Baraka Award, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, 2016
press
Video: “Etape 6 - L'Amoureux,” FOLIE CURIEUSE, Vaudour Troubadour, Marseille, France, 2023Radio interview: Amazing Stories from Skid Row, KKLA 99.5 FM, Los Angeles, CA, 2018“The Story of Semicolon,” Boulder Poetry Scene, 2013