Gary Jackson

Gary Jackson is the author of Missing You, Metropolis (2010), which was the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and origin story (2021). He’s also coeditor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair, 2021). Jackson's poems have appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, The Sun, Los Angeles Review of Books, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. He’s been published in Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology, was featured in the 2013 New American Poetry Series by the Poetry Society of America, and is the recipient of both a Cave Canem and Bread Loaf fellowship.

Jackson earned his BA from Washburn University and his MFA from University of New Mexico. He teaches creative writing at the College of Charleston.