Jacqueline Pearce

Jacqueline Pearce is an award-winning poet and children's book author who grew up in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, traditional land of the Quw'utsun. Influenced by degrees in both English Literature and Environmental Studies, Jacqueline's writing explores relationships between personal and local history, cultures and nature. Her novels for children include Discovering Emily, about the childhood of artist Emily Carr, and The Reunion, about friendships in the multicultural sawmill community of Paldi on Vancouver Island before WWII. Jacqueline's haiku poetry has been featured in A New Resonance 11: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku and Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees. She is editor of Last Train Home, an international anthology of haiku, tanka and rengay on the theme of train travel, which won the 2022 Haiku Society of America Merit award for best haiku anthology. The Warm Land is Jacqueline's first collection of her own haiku.