Representation: Triangle House Literary
Contact info: kima@triangle.house
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, born in Los Angeles, attended Ramona Convent College Preparatory School for Girls and California Girls State in a former incarnation of his life. He is a retired finance director of African American and Filipina descent who began writing after a serendipitous corporate layoff. His artistic practice in multiple forms addresses gender, family history, and conflict emergence. His poems, plays, essays, and visual art have appeared in Callaloo, Electric Literature, The Georgia Review, Foglifter, and The Offing among others. He is a Cave Canem poetry fellow, a recipient of an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, and a Millay Arts Vincent Prize recipient. He has also received support from the Hurston/Wright Foundation as a summer fellow in speculative fiction, Jack Straw Cultural Center Writers Program curated by Nisi Shawl, and as an associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency #191 with Addae Moon in performance writing. His debut novel The Ephemera Collector is forthcoming from Liveright. Stacy received his BAFA, magna cum laude from the University of Southern California, a graduate assistantship in sculpture from the University of Arizona, an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Influences include Octavia E. Butler, Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Martin Puryear. Currently he splits his time between Washington, DC and the island of Madeira.
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