A reformed lawyer and former homeschool mom, Andrea LeDew provides caregiving services to a person with autism when she is not writing. After three decades in Jax, she still probes its vacillating nuances with the curiosity of a stranger. Like our area’s climate, her writing can provoke irritation as well as provide comfort. Published in the anthologies Moss Gossamer, Border Beats, and Regency Reflections, her poem “Narrow” placed fourth in the FWA 2023 anthology Secrets.

LeDew will read at 1:15 PM on Saturday, December 2nd in the Art Auditorium E-112-F.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival X, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 1, 2, and 3, 2023 at FSCJ’s Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL, 32205.

JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: FSCJ, Alternate Roots, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, 904WARD, Chamblin’s Bookmine and Uptown Café, Delegal & Poindexter, Andres Rojas, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Babs’ Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.