Jared Jackson is a writer, educator, and arts administrator born in Hartford, CT. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where he was awarded a Chair’s Fellowship and Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. His writing has received support from the Tin House Winter Workshop and has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Yale Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Catapult, and elsewhere. He has been awarded residencies and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Baldwin for the Arts, and the Center for Fiction.
Currently, Jackson is the Program Director of Literary Programs and Emerging Voices at PEN America, where he oversees and manages writing programs including the Emerging Voices Fellowship, the Dreaming Out Loud workshop series, and the Worker Writers School. Additionally, he administers PEN Out Loud, PEN America’s flagship literary conversation series showcasing literary excellence and a wide range of diverse voices. In 2022, he was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Executive Leader of Color.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Creative Writing
Writing Alumnus 2020