Linda Susan Jackson

Linda Susan Jackson is the author of What Yellow Sounds Like (Tia Chucha Press, 2007), which was a finalist for The National Poetry Series and the Paterson Prize, as well as two chapbooks, A History of Beauty (2001) and Vitelline Blues (2002), both from Black-eyed Susan Publishing. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Calabash International Literary Festival, Frost Place, and Soul Mountain. She is a retired associate professor of English from Medgar Evers College/CUNY.