Special Issue # 4
IN CONVERSATION| Celebrating 5 Years Celebration!
SEPTEMBER 19, 2026
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JACQUESE ARMSTRONG
Author | Multidisciplinary Artist
Jacquese Armstrong, author of fabricating a home ‘cause you never had one (Aquarius Press Willow Books, 2026) and blues legacy (Broadside Lotus Press, 2019) was the recipient of the 2019 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and 2015 Ambassador Award from the State of New Jersey Governor’s Council on Mental Health Stigma for promoting wellness and recovery and reducing stigma through the arts.
Her work is upcoming or has appeared in WSQ, Dragonfly, Killens Review of Arts and Letters and the anthology Darling Nikki, Mississippi Free Press, Women’s eNews, Merge, Black Fire—This Time Vol. 2, Lolwe, African Voices,Valley Voices: a Literary Review, Torch Literary Arts, midnight & indigo, Mad Women in the Attic, MAD in America, Black Magnolias, Black Ourselves and others.
Jacquese was a 2022 Black Fire—This Time Anthology Summer Fellow. Her work with the TMI Project includes TMI Project’s Barnard College Storytelling Performance, TMI Project’s Black Stories Matter: Every Word Spoken and TMI Project’s Alone Together True Storytelling Performance.A 2024-2025 Women’s eNews Loreen Arbus Accessibility is Fundamental Journalism Fellow and coordinator of the NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Expressive Arts Network for more than a decade, Jacquese earned her Journalism B.A. from the University of Toledo, Toledo OH and a SEA (Social Emotional Arts) Facilitator Certificate from the Arts & Healing Initiative.
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