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Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an American poet, playwright, and novelist based in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Jackson became the Illinois Poet Laureate in 2020.[2]

Angela Jackson
Born	(1951-07-25) July 25, 1951 (age 71) Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.
Education	Northwestern University (B.A.) University of Chicago (M.A.)
Occupation	Poet playwright novelist

Biography

Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the fifth of nine children,[3] but grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where her father, George Jackson, Sr, and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved.[3]

Jackson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

Education

In 1977, she graduated from Northwestern University, where she won an Academy of American Poets Award, and the University of Chicago with an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean studies.[3] Her novels Where I Must Go and Roads, Where There Are No Roads were inspired by her experiences at Northwestern.

Career

She joined the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) with young black writers such as Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Carolyn Rodgers, Sterling Plumpp,[5] and was editor of the journal Nommo.[6]

Personal life

Jackson is Catholic.[7]

Awards

• 1973: Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award
• 1974: Academy of American Poets Award from Northwestern University
• 1979: Illinois Art Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction
• 1980: National Endowment For the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction
• 1984: Hoyt W. Fuller Award for Literary Excellence
• 1985: American Book Award[8]
• 1984: DuSable Museum Writers Seminar Poetry Prize
• 1984: Pushcart Prize for Poetry
• 1989: ETA Gala Award
• 1996: Illinois Authors Literary Heritage Award
• Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards
• five for fiction and one for poetry; The Carl Sandburg Award
• Chicago Sun-Times Friends of Literature Book of the Year Award
• 2000: Illinois Art Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Playwriting
• 2002: Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America[9]
• 2008: American Book Award[8]

Works

Poetry

• "VooDoo/Love Magic", Poetry Foundation
• Voodoo Love Magic. Third World Press. 1974.
• The Greenville Club, 1977 (chapbook)
• Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E. Oba House. 1985. ISBN 978-0-933653-01-6.
• The Man with the White Liver. Illustrator Melora Walters. Contact II Publications. 1987. ISBN 978-0-936556-16-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners. Northwestern University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8101-5001-0.
• And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems New and Selected. Northwestern University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8101-5076-8.

Plays

• Witness!, 1970
• Shango Diaspora: An African American Myth of Womanhood and Love, 1980
• Comfort Stew. Northwestern University Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-8101-4117-9. Also known as When the Wind Blows
• Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair

Novels

• Treemont Stone
• Where I Must Go. Northwestern University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8101-5185-7. American Book Award
• Roads, Where There Are No Roads. Northwestern University Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-8101-3472-0.

Memoir

• Apprenticeship in the House of Cowrie Shells

Anthologies

• Pamela Gemin; Paula Sergi, eds. (1999). Boomer Girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2.
• Kalamu ya Salaam, ed. (1998). 360,̊ a revolution of Black poets. Black Words. ISBN 978-0-7394-1585-6.

References

External links

• Angela Jackson Bio from Illinois Poet Laureate
• Nora Brooks Blakely (Aug 1985). "Word Wizard". Ebony Jr. Magazine.

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