J. Jobe [ she / her ] “The Rainbows Herself” is a vivacious exultant of color, sound, and movement. She celebrates alma maters Knox College and University of Central Arkansas. Since 2009, she has worked for the Central Arkansas Library System as the editorial assistant for the online resource Encyclopedia of Arkansas. She offers regular EOA programming.
Since 2014, Jobe has taught writing workshops through the Central Arkansas Library System. Jobe has taught journaling, memoir, writing 101, how to workshop; she has covered various genres and done book talks with authors. Jobe’s offerings have included courses on the ever-popular Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and many more. Jobe’s programs can be found under the CALS Writing Circle umbrella. Her current obsession is leading “The WAY,” a workshop group for Writing All Year.
Pre-pandemic, Jobe led a reading series at Guilllermo’s, the monthly Karen Hayes Prose and Poetry Night. A special encore night took place at Nexus in September 2022.
Jobe’s words have appeared in the Arkansas Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts (ACTELA) Newsletter and the Arkansas Review as a reviewer, Arkansas LGBTQ+ publication The READ, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as an opinionated letter-writer, the Toad Suck Review as an interviewer and reviewer, the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Kansas City art magazine Review Inc., and lit mag Catch.
Jobe’s visual art was once featured in Demarkation: an Illustrated Narrative Exhibit; The Bookstore at Library Square; and Moore Art Supplies & More. As a library programmer for her branch at the Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History and Art, she sometimes offering programming on how to collage.
Jobe is out as pansexual polyamorous and is living her best life in a rowdy house full of laughter, love, and light… and cats.
Last Updated March 11, 2025