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Jared Jackson is a writer born in Hartford, CT. His fiction has been published in The Yale Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, n+1, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. His work has received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Center for Fiction, Baldwin for the Arts, Loghaven, Hawthornden Foundation, Instituto Sacatar, McCormack Writing Center, Writer’s Block Residency, Granum Foundation, and Willapa Bay AiR. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Jackson was previously the director of programs and partnerships at Poets & Writers, Inc. and the program director of literary programs at PEN America. 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. He lives in New York. Locals is his first book.