Yolande Clark-Jackson
is a multimedia creative communicator and consultant who has worked in various areas of publishing. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction and is an award-winning personal essayist and author of the award-winning children鈥檚 book,聽Rocko鈥s Big Launch. Yolande has published writing on multiple platforms and has been both a teaching artist and an artist-in-residence. She is currently seeking representation for her first book of narrative nonfiction, and is expanding a family archive project and art exhibition that first showed in City Arts Gallery in Orlando in June 2022.聽 To help聽spark the inner storytellers of others, she also hosts monthly creative writing events called 鈥淲ine Down and Write.鈥 She is a member of the Author鈥檚 Guild, and speaks English.