author of Zion
2:10 PM on Friday, October 23
T.J. Jarrett's poems cross the centuries as she writes in her own voice and in personae that range from long dead ancestors to Governor Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi to create what poet Rodney Jones has called, “an unforgettable dialogue of generation, of gender, of race.” ˆZion won the Crab Orchard Open Competition, and Jarrett's first collection, Ain't No Grave, was a finalist for the Balcones Prize and was published by New Issues Press. Jarrett lives in Nashville, where she works as a software developer.
