Linda Susan Jackson’s first book, What Yellow Sounds Like, (Tia Chucha Press, 2007) was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Series Competition. She is also the author of two chap books, Vitelline Blues and A History of Beauty. She has received fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Cave Canem Foundation, Frost Place, Soul Mountain Writers Retreat and Calabash International Literary Festival. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including The New Sound, Black Venus 2010: They Call Her Hottentot; Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Brilliant Corners, Gathering Ground and was featured on From the Fishouse audio archive. She is an associate professor in the English department at Medgar Evers College/CUNY in Brooklyn, NY.
