Tricia Booker is an award-winning journalist who has written for Folio Weekly, Southern Living, Notre Dame Magazine, and other publications around the country. She currently teaches journalism at the University of North Florida and writes a popular blog about topics ranging from politics and literature to adoption and manners. Her first book, The Place of Peace and Crickets, is a memoir about how Tricia and her husband adopted and are raising three children.

Booker will read at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, November 16th.