Jae Nichelle

Jae Nichelle is a Louisiana-born poet who writes under she/her pronouns. She is the author of God Themselves (Andrews McMeel, 2023) and the chapbook The Porch (As Sanctuary) (YesYes Books, 2019). Host Publications is publishing her musical-in-verse Grownfolk Blues, which it named the winner of the 2026 Joe W. Bratcher Prize. The book is slated for release in October 2026. She was named a 2026 Oregon Literary Fellow in Poetry and received the Writer of Color Fellowship from Literary Arts. Her spoken word work has been featured by Button Poetry and Write About Now. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2020, The Offing, and Washington Square Review. She is also a slam poetry champion.