Roland Jackson is a fiction writer and a climbing arborist by trade. His stories are featured in Passages North and Wisconsin People & Ideas, and his work has been supported by the Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing.
His M.F.A. is from the University of Montana, and his writing has been supported by the Periplus Collective and Baldwin for the Arts. He is the 2023-2024 Writer's Fellow for Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
At MacDowell, Jackson completed a draft of his novel, Service Requests. It is a story about race, the vanishing tree canopy, and who gets to lay claim to it.
