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 speculative ergodic debut novel The Ephemera Collector was published by Liveright in 2025. His ergodic docupoetics chapbook Allegiance was a 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition finalist. His Afrofuturist play The Codex of Narma was a semifinalist for the 2025 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and received a staged reading presented by the National Queer Theater. In 2026 his monologue Intelligence was a semifinalist for NYCPlaywrights Black Women Genius monologue competition. An excerpt of The Codex of Narma was selected to be performed at Theater Alliance’s 2026 Hothouse New Play Block Party. 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 was a 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. Previous board service and community work has included ZYZZYVA literary journal, Fresh Meat Productions, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center Project, and the San Francisco Transgender Civil Rights Implementation Task Force.
Influences include Octavia E. Butler, Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead, Suzan-Lori Parks, Susan Rothenberg, and Martin Puryear. He splits his time between Washington, D.C. and the island of Madeira.
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