Adèle Jeanne-Rose holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where their thesis manuscript received the MFA Writing Fellowship Award through a blind jury process, with commendation by Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award–winning poet and translator. They are a 2026 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar in Poetry, a 2026 Wassaic Project Artist Resident, and a 2025–2026 Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library, and were also selected for AWP’s Writer-to-Writer Mentorship Program. Their work has appeared in peer-reviewed academic and poetic-critical journals, including Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, and has been presented at venues such as the Furious Flower Poetry Conference IV. Their practice centers an African Amerindian-Caribbean queer ecological and decolonial poetic inquiry into the psychic and material afterlives of Atlantic slavery, moving across the interlinked geographies of the Caribbean and the Americas. Interweaving archival fragments, Creole languages, and ancestral knowledge, their work articulates a grammar of resistance, memory, and lineal continuity. The work unfolds as a liturgical sequence shaped through invocation, repetition, and syncretic language, contributing to queer and eco-queer poetics of the Caribbean and the Americas while foregrounding French Caribbean realities often erased or flattened within metropolitan frameworks, with queer desire operating not as theme but as a cosmological principle structuring relation, time, and voice. Reimagining land, sea, and voice as counter-archives, the poetry invokes them as generative sites of remembrance, repair, epistemic renewal, and erotic-spiritual sovereignty. Through invocation, repetition, and syncretic language, their work treats poetry as a living system—one capable of sustaining memory, desire, ancestry, and futurity. Adèle Jeanne-Rose is a poet and interdisciplinary artist-scholar.
