Stacy Nathaniel Jackson is a trans poet, playwright, writer, and visual artist of African American and Filipina descent originally from Los Angeles. His poems, plays, essays, and visual art have appeared in Callaloo, Electric Literature, Foglifter, The Gay & Lesbian Review, The Georgia Review and elsewhere. His debut novel The Ephemera Collector was published by Liveright/W.W. Norton in 2025, received a starred Publisher’s Weekly review, starred Library Journal review, and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in 2026.
His docupoetics chapbook Allegiance was a 2025 Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition finalist. His Afrofuturist play The Codex of Narma was a semi-finalist for the 2025 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and received a staged reading presented by the National Queer Theater. In 2026 he was a Celebration Theatre Trans Lineage Playwright finalist, his monologue Intelligence was a semi-finalist for NYCPlaywrights Black Women Genius monologue competition, and 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 curated by Nisi Shawl, 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. He is a member of The Author’s Guild, The Dramatist Guild, Poets & Writers, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
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, Maxine Chernoff, Walter Mosley, Suzan-Lori Parks, Susan Rothenberg, and Colson Whitehead. He currently splits his time between Washington, D.C. and the island of Madeira.
