Figure of Speech: Skye Jackson

Skye Jackson was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds degrees from LSU and Mississippi College School of Law. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop where she currently serves as an Associate Poetry Editor of Bayou Magazine. She also co-edited The Portable Boog Reader, an instant anthology of poetry based in New York City with a focus on New Orleans writers. Her work has appeared in the Delta Literary Journal and Thought Catalog. Her prize-winning chapbook, A Faster Grave, was published in May 2019 by Antenna Press. She has taught at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and currently teaches at the University of New Orleans. My chapbook can be purchased in New Orleans at Antenna Gallery, Paper Machine, Garden District Book Shop, Malvern Books in Austin, TX or online at www.antenna.works. Upcoming events: On Friday, November 22nd 2019, I will be featured at the New Orleans Words and Music Literary Festival, as part of the late night literature session, "Poets Respond to Gentrification." Originally aired on September 28th 2019.