Jared Jackson is a writer born in Hartford, CT. He has been awarded residencies, fellowships, and grants from MacDowell, Yaddo, 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 was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories series. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. His debut story collection, Locals, is forthcoming from Viking.
Jackson was previously the director of programs and partnerships at Poets & Writers, Inc. where he lead the expansion of their professional development programs for writers, oversaw longstanding programs including the Writers Exchange Award and Readings & Workshops program, and advanced the organization’s goal to expand its reach to writers across the country. Prior to that he was the program director of literary programs at PEN America where he oversaw writing and public programs. He has taught at Columbia University, was named a 2022 New York Foundation for the Arts Executive Leader of Color, and serves on the Fiction Committee for the Brooklyn Book Festival.
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