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.

We’re happy to have Johnny Masiulewicz read with us at JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 13th.

Johnny Masiulewicz is author of the poetry collection Professional Cemetery (Puddin’head Press) and creator of the Happy Tapir zine series. His work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, sites and anthologies including Curbside Review, The Main Street Rag, Third Wednesday, Ash & Bones and The Alembic. A native Chicagoan, he now lives and works in St Johns, Florida.

Tricia Booker is an award-winning journalist who has written for Folio Weekly, Southern Living, Notre Dame Magazine, and other publications around the country. She currently teaches journalism at the University of North Florida and writes a popular blog about topics ranging from politics and literature to adoption and manners. Her first book is a memoir about how Tricia and her husband adopted and are raising three children.

We are so happy Tricia will read with us on Saturday, October 13th at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival!

Andres Rojas has an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and is the author of the audio chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems). 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 American Writing, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry Northwest.

We are delighted that Andres will read at JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 13th.