JARED JACKSON

Jared Jackson is a writer, editor, educator, and arts administrator born in Hartford, CT. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where he was a Chair's Fellow and Creative Writing Teaching Fellow. His writing has been published in the Best American Short Stories 2023, New York Times Book Review, Yale Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, n+1, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. He has been awarded residencies, fellowships, and grants from MacDowell, Yaddo, Center for Fiction, Baldwin for the Arts, Tin House, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Writer's Block Residency, and the Granum Foundation. In 2022, he was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Executive Leader of Color. He has taught at Columbia University and elsewhere.