Louisiana-born Jae Nichelle (she/her) is the author of GOD THEMSELVES (Andrews McMeel, 2023) and the chapbook THE PORCH (AS SANCTUARY) (YesYes Books, 2019). A graduate fellow of The Watering Hole, Jae won the inaugural John Lewis Writing Award in poetry from the Georgia Writers Association and was a finalist for a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship.