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.

Click here to read Folio Weekly’s guest editorial by your Scribbler, announcing the selected writer/readers for the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VI.

Congratulations to all 31. Mark your calendars for Saturday, November 16th. Don’t make me come get you!