Jade Jemison

Jade Jemison is a Creative Writing (Nonfiction) Ph.D. student. She’s a Mcknight Doctoral Fellow and has won the KeyWest Literary Seminar - Teachers and Librarians scholarship, the Hippocampus Nonfiction Conference - Writers of Color scholarship, and more. Jade received her M.F.A. from the University of South Florida. She is originally from Missouri but has lived in Florida for 10 years. Her work examines the impact of representations of Black literary familial relationships on societal norms, expectations, and child-rearing. Her writing covers themes of motherhood and identity and has appeared in Spoken Black Girl Magazine, Mineral Literary Magazine, and Prenumbra.