Bio: Jasmine Vallejo-Love is a disabled Poet, Writer, Coach, and HR Leader raised in the South Bronx and living in Los Angeles.
On good health days, she stows away to write. Her work focuses on her formative experiences, ancestors, challenges, and triumphs in Corporate America, living with multiple disabilities, and it addresses social issues such as mental illness, domestic violence, addiction, and sexual assault. She holds a BA in Sociology and Politics from Brandeis University, an MPA in Management from New York University, and a Certificate in Creative Writing from the Writer’s Program at UCLA.
She is a 2025 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow and was selected for the 2025 PEN America Emerging Voices workshop. A Diana Woods Memorial Award finalist, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lunch Ticket, Southland Alibi, Cholla Needles, Blacklandia: Anthology on Black Mental Health, and Free Your Voice: Brandeis Women’s Publication.
Publications
Essays
Her Name was Doña Nana, forthcoming in the Southland Alibi 2025
Breaking the Comb Ceiling, published in Lunch Ticket, December 2024, Finalist for the Diana Woods Memorial Award.
Poetry
Inlandia Institute’s Blacklandia: Anthology on Black Mental Health, forthcoming in 2026
Four Poems: “Drawn to Abusive Men in My Youth.” “Being Bipolar.” “Mother.” “You Never Laid a Hand on Me.”
Cholla Needles, May 2025
Six Poems: “A Gentle Push to Persevere.” “Existential Crisis.” “Butterfly Cinquain for a Burning LA.” “Sole Breadwinner.” “Cerulean Heart.” “For the Puerto Rican Servicemen Who Lost Their Lives in the Aftermath of 9/11.”
Free Your Voice: Brandeis Women’s Publication
Fall 2003 Issue: “Dead Beat.” “Forgotten Monogamy.” “Sitting Jury Duty in the Bronx.” “And the Beat Goes On.”
Spring 2003 Issue: “M14.” “Peppermint Patties.” “Endometriosis.”
Fall 2002 Issue: “Discovering.” “Parallel.” “When I was a Little Girl.” On the Line.” “Mi Sangre.” “Stretched.”
Spring 2002 Issue: “My Sisters. “Puanani Poet.” “Fuerte.”