The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Jacqueline Jiang—poet and writer—was born in 1990 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds a BA in English from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, where she also obtained her MA and is currently pursuing a PhD. Jiang is the author of Water Ripples (La Impresora, 2023) and a contributor of the anthology Ese lugar violento que llamamos normalidad (La Impresora, 2022). Her work has also been published in The Acentos Review, MOKO Magazine, Pree Lit, Yemassee Journal, Revista Sábanas, and Tonguas Literary Magazine, among others. She considers herself to be “a part of the movement by Asians to reconstruct their history in the Caribbean” and mentions José Lee Borges, Tao Leigh Goffe, Zifeng Liu, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, and Yuan Fuei Liao as reference points. Her significant literary influences include Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Julio Cortázar, Gloria Anzaldúa, Aurora Levins Morales, Amy Tan, Staceyann Chin, Kerry Young, Willie Perdomo, Tato Laviera, and Pedro Pietri. Jiang was a poet mentor for the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña’s Poetry Out Loud program and works as a teacher in Puerto Rico’s public education system. 

Works Cited

Jiang, Jacqueline. Author Questionnaire. El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña, 2024.