Mitchell S. Jackson

Mitchell S. Jackson’s debut novel The Residue Years was praised by publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Times of London. Jackson is the winner of a Whiting Award. His novel also won The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for The Center for Fiction Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN / Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, and the Hurston / Wright Legacy Award. Jackson’s honors include fellowships from the Cullman Center of the NYPL, PEN, the Lannan Foundation, NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts), and The Center for Fiction. His writing has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Harpers, The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, and Time Magazine. Jackson is an Assitant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.