Mother Divine

Mother Divine Jacqueline Shea (bio) To my stepmom, Divina, and to Mama Earth. [End Page 49] [End Page 50] Jacqueline Shea Jacqueline Shea is a poet and Ph.D. student studying comparative culture and language, specializing in sociocultural linguistics with a secondary focus on affinity studies. She earned her MA from Arizona State University in Spanish, and she also holds an undergraduate degree in sustainability. She currently teaches undergraduate Spanish courses while researching the relationship between language and culture, emotions, folktales, and psychology from a cross-cultural perspective. Her goal is to foster greater empathy between different cultures and species through better understanding how they connect within the contexts of linguistic and cultural productions.