RaeJeana Brooks is a Jacksonville-born poet, essayist, and movement artist. Her work has been featured in The Offing, Blood Tree Literature, undertone zine, and other esteemed journals, like the physical and digital mailboxes of her loved ones. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction and poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles. She has been a Roots Wounds Words fellow, a Community Foundation for NE FL Art Ventures grantee, and will imminently be in residence at VA Center for Creative Arts.

Brooks will read from her work at 11:15 AM on Saturday, December 2nd in the Main Auditorium F-128.

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.