Tricia Booker is an award-winning writer and journalist making her fourth appearance at JaxByJax. She 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 blog about topics ranging from politics and literature to manners and personal problems. She’s not particularly shy.  

Tricia’s first book is a memoir about her three adopted children, including one who suffers from an attachment disorder. A Place of Peace and Crickets: How adoption, heartache and love built a family is a story about love, kids, dogs and chaos. She says her life is now such that her second book is pretty much writing itself. 

Tricia lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, with an eclectic array of animals. For fun, she collects nasty letters from her homeowners association about political signs and her unmanicured lawn.

Booker will read from her memoir at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center in downtown Jacksonville.