Jared Jackson is a writer, editor, educator, and arts administrator born in Hartford, CT. He has been awarded residencies, fellowships, and grants from MacDowell (’21, ’23), Yaddo (’22, ’24), Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Center for Fiction, Baldwin for the Arts, Instituto Sacatar, Tin House, Writer’s Block Residency, Loghaven, Hawthornden Foundation, and Granum Foundation. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Yale Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, n+1, and VQR, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where he was a chair’s fellow, creative writing teaching fellow, and an adjunct assistant professor.
Currently, Jackson is the director of programs and partnerships at Poets & Writers, Inc. where he leads the expansion of professional development programs for writers, oversees long-standing programs including the Writers Exchange Award and Readings & Workshops program, and advances the organization’s goal to expand its reach to writers across the country. He was previously the program director of literary programs at PEN America, where he oversaw writing and public programs, including showcasing the world’s most distinguished authors and artists such as Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ai Weiwei, Wole Soyinka, Isabel Allende, and Marilynn Robinson, among others. In 2022, he was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Executive Leader of Color.
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