Artist and poet Jacqueline Dee Parker was born in New York City and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Creative Writing / Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University.  Parker’s vintage paper collages and mixed media paintings are widely exhibited and can be found in private, public, corporate and museum collections. Her poems appear in literary journals and anthologies, including Atlanta Review, The Southern Review, Chelsea, Spinning Jenny, E-ratio, and American Diaspora: Poetry of Exile, among others. She is the recipient of a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana State Division of the Arts and a 2021 Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant from South Arts.

 

Parker served as an instructor at Louisiana State University for nearly three decades, teaching in the Department of English before joining the faculty of the School of Art. Prior to life in Louisiana, she lived and worked as a freelance graphic layout artist in New York City, Boston, and Detroit.

Her work is represented by Ann Connolly Fine Art (LA) and she is an artist member of the Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art. She lives in Baton Rouge with her husband, cellist and sculptor Dennis Parker and their shepherd/lab Leda.