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| Born and educated in New Zealand, Jacqueline spent time in extensive travel, working in Montreal, Vancouver, Banff, the Laurentian Mountains, and at United Nations in New York City before beginning a rural life as an organic farmer in the Canadian Rockies, where she raised her three children as a single parent. She moved to Prince George in 1991 to return to school and pursue a writing career. Since then, she has won nine literary awards for her poetry, and performed over three hundred public readings of her work. Her poems are heard often on CBC radio and have been chosen for high school and university class studies. She has been a presenter and a keynote speaker at academic and social justice conferences and symposia in Prince George and Vancouver.
Jacqueline's first book: Threadbare Like Lace,which appeared on the B.C. bestseller list in 1998, is in its sixth printing, and A Northern Woman, published in 2003, is in a second printing. Her work appears on the electronic magazines It’s Still Winter and Reflections On Water, and in the anthology: Groping Our Way Beyond Grief, a collection of the work of five Canadian poets. She won the Prince George Woman of Distinction award for Arts and Culture in 1998 and was chosen by the Free Press as one of the ten people in the community who “make a difference, shake the status quo, and rattle the bars of conformity”. She was the recipient of the Jeanne Clark History Award in February 2000, and won honourable mention for the 1999 CRIAW prize for the best feminist book by a Canadian author.
Jacqueline's biography appears in the Canadian Who’s Who of Canadian Women, and the Canadian Who’s Who Millenium Edition. She is a volunteer for women’s wellness and social justice work in her community, a member of the Canadian Voice Of Women For Peace, and has performed two roles in the Eve Ensler stage production of “The Vagina Monologues.” She is the designer and facilitator of the workshop: The Healing Art Of Story.
Publications
 
Threadbare Like Lace. Smoky River Books, 2004.
A Northern Woman. Caitlin Press, 2003.
Contributor to The Fed Anthology. Anvil Press, 2003.
Contributor to Writer's Bloc Anthology 94. Papyrus, 1994.
Contributor to Groping Our Way Beyond Grief. UNBC and Transformative Collective Press, 2001.
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