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Lexington Book Festival: Meet Lexington Book Festival author Jaki Shelton Green

Jaki Shelton Green is currently the ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina. In 2022, she was recognized by the Forbes Magazine 50 Over 50 Lifestyle List, 2021 UNC Chapel Hill Frank B. Hanes Writer in Residence, 2019 Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2019 NC Humanities Council Caldwell Award, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, and 2003 recipient of the NC Award for Literature. She recently retired from teaching Documentary Poetry at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies.

Jeffrey Blount: Award-winning author and director to be featured at March book festival

Jeffrey Blount’s latest novel, Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way (Beaufort Books), has taken the literary world by storm, earning the 2024 National Indie Excellence Award for African American Fiction, the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Award for African American Fiction, the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for General Fiction, and the 2024 American Book Fest Best Book Award for African American Fiction.