SHORT BIO
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson is a trans writer, poet, playwright, and visual artist originally from Los Angeles. His poems, plays, essays, and visual art have appeared in Callaloo, Electric Literature, Foglifter, Gay and Lesbian Review, The Georgia Review and elsewhere. His debut novel The Ephemera Collector was published by Liveright in 2025. His Afrofuturist play The Codex of Narma was a semi-finalist for the 2025 Eugene O’Neill National Playwright Conference, and received a staged reading presented by the National Queer Theater. He has received support for his work as a Cave Canem poetry fellow, Hurston/Wright Foundation speculative fiction fellow, Jack Straw Cultural Center Writers Program fellow, Millay Arts Vincent Prize fellow, associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency #191 with Addae Moon in performance writing, and recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission individual artist grant. Stacy is a graduate of USC’s Roski School of Art and Design, holds 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, D.C. and the island of Madeira, Portugal.
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