Home of Writer Jonathan Jackson Jr.
Fiction - poetry
"I write to resurrect what memory inherits. Bodies are places that maps forget; I write the stories those bodies remember. "
Who I Am...
Jonathan Jackson is a native of Youngstown, Ohio. He is a recipient of a 2025 Gotham Writers Workshop Creative Writing Scholarship, as well as a Literary Support Award from The Boston Writers of Color. Jackson’s creative nonfiction has appeared in Blavity. A poet and songwriter, Jackson studied Music Business at Columbia College Chicago. In 2020, Jackson self-published his debut poetry collection, In Not So Many Words. In 2021 Jackson began teaching Creative Writing with Community Works, an arts enrichment nonprofit in New Orleans, where he now serves as Program Engagement Manager. Jackson is currently working on his debut novel. Connect on IG: @_jonnnyj
What I Do...
As a Black American writer, I explore two central concerns: the shared epistemologies of my ancestral lineage through what I term 'Black Spiritual Realism' (Shaped by The Black Church and the breadth Black American music, my fiction often examines how the mundane and mystical interweave in Black American life) and interrogating how Black bodies become sites of contested ownership—claimed by families, institutions, and systems—and how characters navigate the space between being possessed and possessing themselves. Spaces where love and violence coexist are also central to my work.
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Jonathan Jackson Jr.
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