So happy to have Chris Gabbard read with us at JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 13th.

Chris Gabbard teaches courses in British Enlightenment literature, Disability Studies in the Humanities, and creative nonfiction at UNF. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Jacksonville in 2001. From 1983 to 1989, he was the chief editor of The Short Story Review. More recently, he has published on disability issues appearing in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. In 2019, Bloomsbury Press will publish a book he is coediting, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century. Also in 2019, Beacon Press will publish A Life Beyond Reason: A Father’s Memoir about his significantly impaired son, August.