Jackson Bliss

Fiction Writer

Los Angeles, CA
California US
Email: 
jacksonbliss@gmail.com
Website: 
www.jacksonbliss.com/books
Twitter/X: 
@jacksonbliss

Author's Bio

Jackson Bliss is the winner of the 2020 Noemi Press Award in Prose and the mixed-race/hapa author of Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021), Amnesia of June Bugs (7.13 Books, 2022), Dream Pop Origami (Unsolicited Press, 2022), and the speculative fiction hypertext, Dukkha, My Love (2017).  His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Ploughshares, Guernica, Antioch Review, TriQuarterly, ZYZZYVA, Columbia Journal, Fiction, Quarterly West, Boston Review, Longreads, and Multiethnic Literature in the US, among others.  He is an assistant professor of English & creative writing at Bowling Green State University. 

Education: 
University of Southern California PhD

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Amnesia of June Bugs (7.13 Books, 2022)
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Dream Pop Origami (Unsolicited Press, 2022)
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Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021)
Journals:
3AM Magazine
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African American Review
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Angel City Review
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Antioch Review
,
Arts & Letters
,
Boston Review
,
Columbia Journal
,
Connecticut Review
,
Fiction
,
Fiction International
,
Good Men Project
,
Guernica Magazine
,
Hobart
,
Joyland
,
Juked
,
Kartika Review
,
Kenyon Review
,
Longreads
,
New York Times
,
Notre Dame Review
,
Pleiades
,
ploughshares
,
Quarter After Eight
,
Quarterly West
,
Santa Monica Review
,
South Loop Review
,
Stand Magazine
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the Huffington Post
,
Tin House
,
TriQuarterly
,
Witness
,
ZYZZYVA
Prizes won: 

2020 Noemi Prize Book Prize in Prose, U.S.C. College Merit Award Fellowship, F.L.A.S. Fellowship in Japanese, A.C.E/Nikaido Grant, La Vie de Bohème Award, Kaneb Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, 1st Runner Up of the 2013 Poets & Writer's California Exchange Award in fiction, Sparks Prize

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Zadie Smith, Aimee Bender, Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, W.G. Sebald, Leslie Jamison, Junot Díaz, Lydia Davis, Adrian Tomine, Banana Yoshimoto, J.D. Salinger, & Joan Didion.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Teachers, Teenagers, Veterans
Fluent in: 
English, French, Spanish
Born in: 
Traverse City, MI
Michigan
Raised in: 
Chicago & the West Coast
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Last update: Sep 09, 2021