We are pleased to welcome H.K. Rainey to the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival. Come hear her read on Saturday, October 13th.

H.K. Rainey, author of Memory House (2010), received her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California, where she was poetry editor of 580 Split and creator of the Anger Management Reading Series. Her critical essays have appeared in Jacket Magazine and Kelsey Street Press, and her poetry in Sand Canyon Review, Bang Out SF, Corium, Cider Press Review, Mad Rush, Bird’s Thumb, and others. Featured in three anthologies—Word Trips: Poems from the First Coast (Hidden Owl Books, 2007); Conversations at the Wartime Cafe: A Decade of War 2001-2011 (Ed. Sean Labrador Y Manzano), and Lost Frames Compendium (Paper Press, 2015)— she teaches at Columbia Correctional Facility and lives and writes in the Jacksonville Area.