Tayve Neese’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies around the United States and abroad including The Paris Review (online edition), Comstock Review, Fourteen Hills, and diode. She was longlisted for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor\’s International Poetry Prize in Australia. Her full-length collection of poems, Blood to Fruit, was published in 2015. Locust, her second collection of poems, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. She is Co-founder and Co-executive Editor of Trio House Press and is Primary Editor of The Banyan Review, an international, online journal. Neese currently resides on a barrier island off the coast of Florida.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VII is a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville. Generous sponsors include Baptist Health, Chamblins Uptown & Bookmine, Delegal & Poindexter, PA; Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

The 2020 festival will take the form of a documentary video, with watch parties at noon on Saturday, October 17th and 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 18th. For details, see jaxbyjax.com.