Discipline: Poetry
Based In: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Year at Millay: 2021
Awards/Honors: Prize Winner, Creative Nonfiction, First Pages Prize, North Miami Beach, FL (2023); Artist-in-Residence, Poetry, VCCA Residency, Amherst, VA (2023); Artist-in-Residence, MFA Winter Residency, MFA in Creative and Professional Writing, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT (2023); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2022); Fellow, Non-Fiction, Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, Lambda Literary, New York, NY (2021); Award Winner, Poetry, Housatonic Book Award, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT (2021); Artist-in-Residence, Residency #174, Mentoring Artist-in-Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (2019); Fellow, Emerging Voices Fellowship, PEN America, Los Angeles, CA (2018).
Website: http://www.justjubi.com
Photo by Beowulf Sheehan
Jubi Arriola–Headley (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian, and the author of two collections of poems: original Kink (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award, and Bound (Persea Books, 2024). He’s currently at work on a collection of essays, an excerpt of which received the 2023 First Pages Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Jubi lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands.