Congratulations to JFR Faculty Advisor Dr. Jackie White who received the Reid H. Montgomery Distinguished Service Award!
This award given by the College Media Association is “presented to an individual or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to collegiate media.”
Dr. White is the author of three chapbooks–Bestiary Charming, winner of the 2007 Anabiosis Press Award; Petal Tearing & Variations (Finishing Line Press, 2008); and Come clearing (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), and served as an assistant editor for the collaborative anthology, They Said (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). She is also co-translator of Cesar Rondon’s Book of Salsa (North Carolina Press, 2008) and her translations and poems have appeared in such journals as Fifth Wednesday, Quarter after Eight, Spoon River, and Third Coast. Recent poems appear in Tupelo Quarterly, along with collaborative poems published or forthcoming in Pleiades, The Journal, Isthmus, Posit, Bennington Review, Hypertext, Ecotone, and Cincinnati Review. An editor with RHINO for ten years, she is now a faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review and has been the recipient of fellowships at Ragdale, VCCA, and the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts. She is a Professor of English at Lewis University, teaching courses in poetry, Native American, Latinx, and Latin American literatures.
