Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an award-winning American poet, playwright, and novelist based in Chicago, Illinois.

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

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

Jackson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

• 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
• 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
• 2008: American Book Award

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.CS1 maint: others (link)
• Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners. Northwestern University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8101-5001-0.
• 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
• When the Wind Blows, 1984 (better known as the eta production entitled Comfort Stew)
• Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair,

Novels

• Treemont Stone
• Where I Must Go (2009), American Book Award.

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.