Skye Jackson

Skye Jackson’s work has appeared in RHINO, Palette Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize and was the recipient of the AWP Intro Journals Award. She currently serves as a Visiting Writer at Xavier University and was appointed the Writer-in-Residence of the Jack Kerouac House. She is the current Chairwoman of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Her debut poetry collection, Libre, was published by Regalo Press and nationally distributed by Simon & Schuster. Libre was also selected as One Book One New Orleans’ chosen book for 2026.