Jared Jackson is a writer born in Hartford, CT. His fiction has been published in The Yale Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, n+1, and VQR, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. His work has received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Center for Fiction, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Baldwin for the Arts, Instituto Sacatar, and Hawthornden Foundation, among other organizations. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Jackson was previously the director of programs and partnerships at Poets & Writers, Inc. and the program director of literary programs at PEN America. He has taught at Columbia University, was named a 2022 New York Foundation for the Arts Executive Leader of Color, and serves on the Fiction Committee for the Brooklyn Book Festival. He lives in New York.