Jared Jackson is a writer, educator, and arts administrator born in Hartford, Connecticut. He has received residencies, fellowships, and grants from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Center for Fiction, Baldwin for the Arts, Instituto Sacatar, Tin House, the Writer’s Block Residency, Loghaven, the Hawthornden Foundation, and the Granum Foundation. His writing has appeared in The Yale Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, n+1, and VQR, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories series. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. His debut story collection, Locals, is forthcoming from Viking.
