JAYNE CORTEZ
Board Member

Poet Jayne Cortez was born in Arizona, grew up in California, and currently lives in New York City. She is the author of ten books of poems, including Jazz Fan Looks Back, Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere, Fragments, Poetic Magnetic, Coagulations & Selected New Poems, and Firespitter.

She has performed her poetry with music on nine recordings, and her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic, innovations in lyricism and visceral sound.

Cortez has presented her works and ideas at universities, museums and festivals in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, the Caribbean and the United States. Her poems have been translated into many languages and widely published in anthologies, journals and magazines.

For more information, please visit:
www.JayneCortez.com