Jude Keef is an essayist, game designer, and, when most in sync with the world, poet. Their work focuses on their lived experience as a Southern queer and interests in the surreal or the mystical, whether that manifests as form or content. They specialize in poetry and the lyric essay. Jude's work has been published in the Sequoyah Review, the Southern Literary Festival Anthology, and Objects in the Mirror: An Anthology of Legacy.

They are a current student of the graduate creative writing program at UT Chattanooga, and have been on the masthead of journals such as ContiguousLyt and UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity.