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PhD student at GC (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Lit and Lang) and adjunct lecturer at York College

Writer and multimedia artist born in Havana. Author of Liquid Days (TribalSong, 1997), Escenas para turistas (Editorial Campana, 2003) and Mujeres sin trama (Editorial Campana, 2011). Her work has also been published in anthologies such as Dream with no Name. Contemporary Fiction from Cuba (Seven Stories Press, 1997), Aquí me tocó escribir. Antología de escritores latinos en Nueva York (Trabe, 2006), Dos orillas. Voces en la narrative lésbica (Egales Editorial, 2008) and Nosotras dos. Antología homoerótica femenina (Ediciones Unión, 2011). She is currently researching/writing her PhD dissertation at the Graduate Center of New York (CUNY) and teaches at York College and BMCC (CUNY). Jacqueline’s literary work explores the process of fictionalization of memory and the construction of authorial identities, the deconstruction of the lesbian as a perverse subject, the representation of eroticism and homoerotic desire. Among her other interests are the literature produced in Spanish in the US, autoficción and urban photography.