Ig – jacquese_armstrong fb – Jacquese Armstrong
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Photo Description: Jacquese is a Black woman with upswept natural tight curl patterned grey hair. She has on a black thermal shirt. She wears circular black framed glasses.
Based in Jackson, MS, Jacquese Armstrong focuses poetically on the healing journey of Black Americans, as it relates to her own. A graduate of University of Toledo in OH, with a B.A. in Journalism, Jacquese chooses to focus on creating self-care and emotional wellness workshops, using the arts as raw materials.
Author of birthing yourself naturally: motivational reflections on a mental health journey (2022) and blues legacy (Broadside Lotus Press, 2019), she was the recipient of the 2019 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and a 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.
Jacquese was a 2022 Black Fire—This Time Anthology Summer Fellow with Aquarius Press. She has been a cast member of TMI Project’s storytelling performances Black Stories Matter: Every Word Spoken and Alone Together stories of COVID-19 in quarantine.
