Jae Nichelle

Jae Nichelle is a Louisiana-born poet, performer, and screenwriter based in Portland, Oregon. A slam champion since her teens (Youth Speaks’ inaugural Raise Up winner; founder of Tulane’s slam team), she is the author of God Themselves (2023) and Grownfolk Blues (2026), winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize, a narrative in poems inspired by the queer Southern blues artists of the 1920s and 30s.…