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Jacqueline St. Joan’s award-winning fiction, essays, scholarship and poetry intersect the fields of law and literature with the voices of contemporary women. Her latest novel, a The Shawl of Midnight, a hero’s journey and family saga set in Pakistan and Kashmir, published in 2022 by Golden Antelope Press. It is a standalone sequel to My Sisters Made of Light (Press 53, 2010) a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in Literary Fiction, is a compelling, heartbreaking, and sometimes terrifying look into the social, political, and religious maze that is Pakistan. Through book sales and readers’ donations, she raised over $23,000 for to build a shelter in Punjab for women and children escaping abuse.
She has won dozens of literary awards and her work has appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies, from Ms. magazine to the Harvard Women’s Law Journal f magazine, The Missouri Review, Valley Voices, and The New York Quarterly. She co-edited the anthology, Beyond Portia: Women, Law & Literature in the United States, and has a published a poetry collection, What Remains. In 2015 she was chosen as Poet of the Year for Ziggies, Denver’s oldest blues club.
She served as a Denver County Judge for ten years and as Director of Clinical Programs at the University of Denver College of Law.
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