Jade Louise Baird is a West Coast Canadian writer, currently living in Victoria, BC. She is finishing her BA in Creative Writing, Environmental Studies, and History at the University of Victoria. Her fiction has been published by journals such as The Stardust Review and Bluing the Blade.
Jade wrote her first story at the age of seven—a two-page saga about a dragonfly who lost his flowers. Since then, writing has been Jade’s principal passion. For Jade, writing is a place where her imagination can flux and flow wildly, where there are no boundaries when it comes to world building. Often, the focal point of her writing is women, and the experiences they face in both today’s realm and the distant past. As a feminist, bringing representation to both the ordinary and extraordinary tales of female protagonists is her core intention when building a narrative. After all, the future is female (and non-binary). Not far behind her love for writing (and creating outlandish worlds) is her love for swimming, social justice, and animals.
Some of Jade’s favourite writers, whom she draws a tremendous amount of inspiration from, are Anne-Marie Macdonald, Kate Morton, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Lalita Tademy, Holly Ringland, Haruki Murakami, and Robert Frost.
Tempered Runes Press Contributions
“The Almond Attack” – Fiction – Volume 1, Number 1 of Bluing the Blade