Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an award-winning poet, playwright and writer based in Chicago.[1]

Life

Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the fifth of nine children,[2] but grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where her father, George Jackson, Sr., and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved. In 1977, she graduated from Northwestern University, where she won the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the University of Chicago with an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean studies.[2]

She joined the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) with young black writers such as Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Carolyn Rodgers, Sterling Plumpp,[3] and was editor of the journal Nommo.[4]

Jackson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

Awards

Works

Poetry

Plays

Novels

Memoir

Anthologies

References

  1. "Angela Jackson". Mississippi Writers and Musicians. February 4, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Angela Jackson biography at Poetry Foundation.
  3. Richard Friedman, Peter Kostakis, Darlene Pearlstein, ed. (1976). 15 Chicago Poets. Yellow Press. ISBN 978-0-916328-04-7.
  4. "The Eighth Kent Conrad Rivers Award", Black World, July 1973, p. 49.
  5. William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris, ed. (2001). The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513883-2.
  6. 6.0 6.1 American Booksellers Association (2013). "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012]". BookWeb. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013. 1985 ... Solo in the Box Car, Third Floor E ... 2008 ... Where I Must Go: A Novel (TriQuarterly)
  7. "Poetry Society of America Awards for 2002". Poetry Society of America. July 27, 2004.

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