Jacquie Velasco is a writer (out of spiritual necessity), director (out of cinephilic passion), dancer (out of childish joy), actor (out of work), and pilates teacher (out of fiscal responsibility). She is a long time resident of Los Angeles, California, where she lives with her husband (who is out of her league) and their cat (who is missing most of her teeth). I Don’t Keep Diaries Anymore is Jacquie Velasco’s debut chapbook.
PRAISE:
“I Don’t Keep Diaries Anymore” is a heart shattering debut chapbook by Jacquie Velasco that is impossible to put down. The collection takes you on a journey of a life without privacy, and the long term emotional and physical repercussions of this hyper-surveilled development. Though the collection lands at a place of well deserved peace and quiet, the road to it’s hopeful sendoff for the next generation left my eyes leaking time and time again.
–Jenna Deblin, poet and editor.
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In I Don’t Keep Diaries Anymore, Jacquie Velasco gives voice to the cost of growing up with nowhere to hide—and the courage it takes to imagine a life beyond that hurt. These poems trace a path through family wounds, stolen privacy, and the longing for a place that feels like your own. With vulnerability, grit, and flashes of hard-won hope, Velasco transforms survival into a tender, defiant act of breaking the past’s hold. A debut collection for anyone who has had to find their way home to themselves.
–Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Northern Kentucky University
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