Jared Jackson is a writer, editor, educator, and arts administrator. His writing has been published in the New York Times Book Review, The Yale Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, n+1, and elsewhere. He has been awarded residencies and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Center for Fiction, Baldwin for the Arts, Tin House, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Writer’s Block Residency.
His short story “Bebo” was anthologized in the Best American Short Stories 2023, guest edited by Min Jin Lee. That story, and others, will be part of his debut story collection, Locals, which he has worked on at MacDowell during both his 2021 and 2023 residencies. The stories follow the lives and dreams of young, local residents of his hometown of Hartford, CT. The manuscript in progress was named a finalist for the 2023 Granum Foundation Prize.
He received an M.F.A. in fiction from
Columbia University, where he was the recipient of a Chair’s Fellowship and
Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. He is currently the director of programs
and partnerships at Poets & Writers, Inc. In 2022, he was named a New York
Foundation for the Arts Executive Leader of Color.
Portrait by Roqu Nonini
