Andres Rojas was born in Cuba and came to the U.S. at age 13. He holds an MFA from the University of Florida and is the author of the chapbook Looking For What Isn’t There (Paper Nautilus Debut Series winner, 2019) and of the audio chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems, 2016). His poetry has been featured in the Best New Poets series and has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, AGNI, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, and Poetry Northwest. He served as poetry editor for Compose and is the current poetry editor at Bridge Eight.

Rojas will read on Saturday, November 16 at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival in downtown Jacksonville. Check it out here.

JaxbyJax is happy to announce tht Erica Susan Saffer will read with us on Saturday, November 16th. Details here.

Erica Susan Saffer resides with her three children in Jacksonville, Florida; studied Education at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida; and studies fiction through the MFA Program at the University of Tampa. Her work provides rich and diverse insights into the beauty found in the mundane, as well as unearthing truths through voicing unique perspectives. She is currently writing a fiction novel, while planning a collection of short stories centered around Florida’s mental health crisis.

Ben Atkinson’s first collection, Spider Lightning (Hidden Owl), will be released at JaxByJax this year. His poems have appeared in Cadence, Chelonian Conservation and Biology, Facets, FM Quarterly, and Stockpot. Ben has read for the JaxByJax Literary Arts Festival, Sing Out Loud Festival, and the Southeastern Sister Cities Reading Tour. 

We are very happy to have Atkinson read with us on Saturday, November 16th. See the JaxbyJax event page for schedules for all the readers.