Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist based in Chicago. 2Life 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,and Loretto academy where she won the 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. 2Awards 1973 Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award in 1973 1974 Academy of American Poets Award from Northwestern University in 1974 1979 Illinois Art Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction in 1979 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 2Works 3Poetry "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 Live