Jean Velasco is an intermittent writer from Naarm/Melbourne who lives in Madrid.
Her first published essay, “How Not to Quench Your Thirst”, came out in Growing Up Queer in Australia (Black Inc.) in 2019. Since then, her work has appeared in various print and online journals, such as Kill Your Darlings, Going Down Swinging, and Overland.
In 2020, her short story, “Néctar”, won the II Clara Campoamor writing prize for the district of Retiro.
In no particular order, some of her creative inspirations include Mona Awad, Alejandro Zambra, Carmen Maria Machado, Elizabeth Tan, Cher Tan, Evelyn Araluen, Paul Murray, Eley Williams, Shaun Tan, William Robinson, Graeme Base, Alison Lester, Guy Delisle, George Orwell, Walter Tevis, Ted Chiang, Fernanda Melchor, Andrea Abreu, the ones in the sidebar on the left, and many, many more…
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