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 2023. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. His debut story collection, Locals, is forthcoming from Viking .
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