JaxbyJax is pleased to welcome a new voice to the festival on Saturday, October 16 at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center.

A Jacksonville native, Cheri “Junebug” Royal springs from a pioneer Westside family. Heavily influenced by snakes, wakes and whiskey, she considers her upbringing to be her greatest writing asset. At UNF she studied people and problem-solving, earning a BFA in figure painting. Her blog is sprinkled with family antics, paintings and photos ruled by the concept, “the unexamined life is not worth living.”