Marva Jackson Lord is a Jamaican-Canadian writer and multi-disciplinary artist. She works with visual and written mediums such as photography, poetry, video and sound and develops works in music, traditional art and digital tools. Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Ontario, Canada, she has lived in Wales for almost 20 years.
Her poetry has been published in Frontenac’s first black Canadian writers’ anthology, Hay-on-Wye’s Quirk and Poetry Space. She has written reviews, profiles and news articles for various publications. She is a recipient of the Visual Arts Group Wales (VAGW) group’s 2021 Interlude Bursary and Mentoring Programme, supported by the Cultural Recovery Fund from the Arts Council of Wales.
Marva’s work is inspired by the rural and urban, and is particularly influenced by her personal ties to the Brecon Beacons in Wales; London, England; Sapelo Island, Georgia; rural Ontario and Toronto, Canada; and memories of early life in Jamaica.
