Jeff Whipple has had many exhibitions of his art and has written dozens of plays and several books. He won 4 Florida state fellowships and 2 from Illinois. He’s had 18 play productions and won 5 Florida playwriting competitions. He won the 2001 Fulton Ross Artist Grant. He received artist grants from the Community Foundation of NE Florida in 2017 and 2021. In 2018, he won a Pollock-Krasner grant. He received an MFA from the University of South FL and has taught at FSU.

Whipple will read on Saturday, December 2nd at 1:30 PM 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.