poetry
prose
photography
other
performance
performance art
readings by invitation
misc.
talks + presentations
awards + honors
press
education
formal education
poetry + the arts
meditation + yoga
experience
professional
volunteer
, poet
Jade 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.
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
Album cover: Lanair’s Flower in Zurich, Chris Siders, 2024
Video: Etape 6 - L'Amoureux, FOLIE CURIEUSE, Vaudour Troubadour, Marseille, France, 2023
publications
poetry
anti-panic, SYZYGEAN, Neoma, 2025 Untitled, ÖMËGÄ, Metatron Press, 2017 How to Eat Yourself, Spilled Milk, 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, 2017Jade 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
nonfiction + journalism
Interview with CAConrad, fields, 2016 J’Lyn Chapman with J. Hillis Miller, The Conversant, 2013Fail Better, Shambhala Times Community News Magazine, 2014
audio
Vocals: My Addiction, FemNova, 2021
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 (Writer, producer, director, director of photography)
Short film: Please Open A Door for Me, 2018 (Writer, producer, director)
Video: A Rusted Rail, 30/30 Poetic Vision, Jack Kerouac School, 2015
modeling
The Deeper Show, photo series by Marcos Rivera, Las Vegas, NV, 2017
exhibition
Photography: dear friend and murder suite, NYCorrespondence, Kickstarter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
performance
performance art
Butoh performance: SYZYGEAN by Neoma, presented by Raze the Whitebox, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, 2025Normal 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
Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA, 2019I’m Alive In Los Angeles, Letters to My City Release Party with Mike Sonsken, Poetry at the Space, Los Angeles, CA, 2019The Cosmic Collective: A Group Poetry Reading, New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans Healing Center, New Orleans, LA, 2019Poetry 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
Reading: [Dis]connected, Naropa Writing Center, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2013
talks + presentations
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
Presentation: Writing Matters Conference, College of the Canyons, 2012
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, 2018Radio show: Show hosted by Jeremy Kennedy, KCHUNG, Los Angeles, CA, 2017New Digital Chapbook from JKS Student, Jack Kerouac School, 2014Let Them Eat Cake: Across the Threshold: A Reading Hosted by the Naropa Writing Center by Joseph Navarro, Jack Kerouac School, 2014 The Story of Semicolon, Boulder Poetry Scene, 2013
education
formal education
Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Literature Naropa University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder, CO, 2015
poetry + the arts
Four Queens, Denver, CO
Selah Saterstrom, 2022
CAConrad, September 2022
(W)rites of Passage, Boulder, CO
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, 2022–2024
Selah Saterstrom, September–November 2021
CAConrad, May 2021
ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Fall 2021 Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Will O’Loughlen, October 2021
Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo, Winter 2021
The Home School, Hudson, NY
TC Tolbert, July 2021 Kundiman, New York, NY
Nayomi Munaweera, March 2021 Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka, Winter 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
Great Books Summer Program, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA, 2009
meditation + yoga
Kinship Yoga School, Los Angeles, CA, 2024
Yoga + Mythos 10-hour YYT with Stephanie Sita DassAgainst the Stream Meditation Center
Noah Levine, Venice, CA, 2024
Dave Smith, Malibu, CA, 2016–2018
Point Horizon Institute, Ravendale, CA, 2022–2023The Berkeley Spire, Berkeley, CA, 2019–2022Yoga with Anjali Budreski, Montpelier, VT, 2021Big Bear Retreat Center, Big Bear City, CA, 2018–2019School of Humanity & Awareness, Atlanta, GA, 2017Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2012–2015
Samatha-Vipassana with Lama Tenpa
Yoga with Nataraja Kallio
Shamanic journeying with Marlow Brooks Dharma Ocean with Reggie Ray, Boulder, CO, 2014Nalandabodhi Colorado with Lama Tenpa, Boulder, CO, 2012–2014 (Vajrayana) Boulder Shambhala Center with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Boulder, CO, 2013 (Vajrayana)
experience
professional
Contract: Senior Content Designer, Intuit, 2025–presentContent Strategist, Julia Balfour, 2024–2025Freelance: Growth Strategist, Empty, 2024Freelance: Web Strategist, Center for Transformation, 2024Contract: Content Designer, H&R Block, 2023Content Designer, Affirm, 2022–2023Web Content Manager, Articulate, 2022Associate Marketing Manager, Articulate, 2021–2022 Digital Marketing Specialist, Articulate, 2020–2021
Content Strategist, The Moran Group, 2019–2020
Media Resource Specialist, Union Rescue Mission, 2018–2019
Employment Center Representative, Union Rescue Mission, 2016–2018
Employment Resource Assistant, Union Rescue Mission, 2016
Contract: SAT Preparation Instructor, Boys and Girls Club of America, 2016
Contract: Private Tutor, TutorDoctor, 2016
English Instructor and Tutor, Opportunities for Learning Charter Schools, 2015–2016
Faculty Liasion, Summer Writing Program, Naropa University, 2015
Academic Tutor, Youth Policy Institute, 2015
Marketing Coordinator, East-West Wellness, 2012–2014
Internship: Editorial Intern, Shambhala Times Community News Magazine, 2013
Freelance: Copywriter, Vim, Inc., 2012
Counselor, Camp Whittle Outdoor Science School, YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, 2011
volunteer
Events, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, 2024–present
Board Member, Covenant Home for Children, Georgetown, Guyana, 2017–2019
Kitchen & Meal Service, Union Rescue Mission, 2015–2016
Campaign Strategist, Heaven on Earth Society for Animals, 2015
Residential Camp Counselor, Camp Whittle and Camp Round Meadow, YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles–North Valley Family YMCA, 2008–2012