About

Jina Carvalho was raised by her grandparents in rural Portugal, before immigrating to Canada.

She has a degree in Psychology and the Performing Arts and has performed in theater, poetry and dance productions in Canada and the United States.

Jina wrote a full length play Birth in a Meantime which explores women’s experience of giving birth in contemporary life.

She is currently working with a mental health nonprofit in Santa Barbara, CA.

The Weight of Desire: a Poetry Memoir is her first poetry collection.