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Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Public address:

Los Angeles, CA

California US

Email:

jacksonbliss@gmail.com

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.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

French

Spanish

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.

Twitter/X:

@jacksonbliss

Born in:

Traverse City, MI

Michigan

Raised in:

Chicago & the West Coast

Website:

http://www.jacksonbliss.com/books [2]

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

Education:

University of Southern California

Identifies as:

Asian American

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Teachers

Teenagers

Veterans