JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival is thrilled to welcome Tayve Neese to read with us on Saturday, November 16th.

Tayve Neese’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies around the county and abroad, including The Paris Review, Comstock Review, Fourteen Hills, and Diode. She is longlisted for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize in Australia. Her poems have been translated into Vietnamese, and Blood to Fruit, her full-length collection of poems, was published in 2015. Locust, her second collection of poems is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. She is Executive Editor of Trio House Press, and was interviewed by The Best American Poetry in 2018. A member of the Concord Poetry Center in Massachusetts, Neese currently resides on a barrier island in Fernandina Beach.

Tayve Neese’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies around the county and abroad, including The Paris Review, Comstock Review, Fourteen Hills, and Diode. She is longlisted for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize in Australia. Her poems have been translated into Vietnamese, and Blood to Fruit, her full-length collection of poems, was published in 2015. Locust, her second collection of poems is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. She is Executive Editor of Trio House Press, and was interviewed by The Best American Poetry in 2018. A member of the Concord Poetry Center in Massachusetts, Neese currently resides on a barrier island in Fernandina Beach.

Iman Byfield is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and artist whose work has appeared in print and digital publications, including The Literateur, epigraph magazine, Tidal Basin Review, The Garland Court Review, and others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University and is a Callaloo Writing Workshop fellow, a Luminarts fellow, and is on the board of the Conjure Women Collective. Iman is from Chicago but has lived in Jacksonville, Fla., for five years where she works as an adjunct English professor and as a communications director for a local nonprofit.

JaxbyJax is thrilled to welcome Byfield as she reads with us on Saturday, November 16th. Check out the venues and times at JaxbyJax.com/event

Chris Gabbard teaches courses in British Enlightenment literature, Disability Studies in the Humanities, and creative nonfiction at the University of North Florida. Beacon Press published his book A Life Beyond Reason: A Father’s Memoir in spring of 2019, and Bloomsbury will release his co-edited volume, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century in December. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Jacksonville in 2001. From 1983 to 1989, he was the chief editor of The Short Story Review, the journal that published Amy Tan’s first story.

You can hear Gabbard read from his work at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, November 16th in downtown Jacksonville. Click here for details.