Jubi Arriola-Headley
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Jubi Arriola-Headley (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, first-generation American, and author of the poetry collections original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 Housatonic Award, and Bound (Persea Books, 2024). He has received support from Yaddo, Millay Arts, Lambda Literary, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and his poems have been featured in Literary Hub, Kweli Journal, Southern Humanities Review, PBS NewsHour’s Brief But Spectacular, and elsewhere. An excerpt of his memoir in essays received the 2023 First Pages Prize for creative nonfiction. Arriola-Headley lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands.