Jacqueline Murray Loring writes stage plays, screen plays and poetry as well as writing and editing non-fiction and memoir.
Loring is the past executive director of the Cape Cod Writers Center. She is a member of the National League of American Pen Women and has served as president of the Cape Cod and Yucca (Albuquerque) Branches.
For nine years, Loring coordinated the Eventide Arts ‘New Plays-New Playwrights’ full-length play writing competition and Kaplan Prize.
Though Loring has been told by readers that she is a poet and she is grateful for the praise, she thinks of herself as a writer of poetry who discovered the poetry skills she has learned and practiced over the years with her poems actually allows her to write succinct dialogue in her screenplays.
She received professional development grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, artist residencies at the Ragdale Foundation in Forest Lake, IL, and at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Cottage, Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland.
Since her move to New Mexico in 2012, she has been an active member of SouthWest Writers and serves as the Membership Chair. She co-edited the 2013 The Storyteller’s Anthology for the SouthWest Writers Group, (anthology: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir, book excerpts).
She has edited and or judged several other SWW anthologies.
She is a member of the SouthWest Writers, Cape Cod Writers Center and the Military Writers Society of America.
New Mexico Route 66 Centennial
New Mexico Route 66 Centennial
Speaker Series presents Jacqueline Murray Loring
Saturday, March 28,2026, 11 am to 12:30 pm
South Valley Library, 3904 Isleta Blvd. SW, ABQ
The Majestic KiMo Theatre on Route 66.
For ninety years,hundreds of thousands of adults and children have packed the KiMo Theatre to watch ballet, drama, spoken- word, and to listen to poetry readings. Performers have acted, sung, danced, and spellbound audiences with magic. Local filmmakers flock there to watch their indie films come alive on the new silver screen.
This event will include a PowerPoint photograph presentation and a Q&A. There is no cost.
Future events from 11 am to noon
to be presented by Jacqueline Murray Loring:
- 1/24/2026 Central & Unser Library,8081 Central Ave, NW, ABQ
- 2/28/2026 Wheels Museum, 1100 2nd StreetS W, ABQ
- 3/28/2026 South Valley Library, 3904Isleta Blvd SW, ABQ
- 4/25/2026 Martha Liebert Public Library,124 W. Malinche, St, Bernalillo
- 5/23/2026 Raymond Sanchez Community Center, 9800 4th Street SW, ABQ
- 6/27/2026 Gutierrez-Hubbell House, 6029 Isleta Blvd SW, ABQ
- 7/25/2026 International District Library,7601 Central Ave SE, ABQ
- 8/22/2026 Isleta Pueblo Cultural Center,71 Tribal Road 40, Isleta
- 9/26/2026 TBA
- 10/24/2026 Special Collections Library,423 Central Ave NE, ABQ
- 11/28/2026 East Mountain Library, 487 NM333, Tijeras
- 12/2026 TBA
Route 66 Centennial Speaker Series is presented in coordination with: Diane Schaller, President, Historic Albuquerque, Albuquerque Historical Society, East Mountain Historical Society, Los Ranchos Historical Society.