Storyist cancer3/21/2023 ![]() She attends Smith College.įrom New Orleans, Lila Dunlap is a graduate of Bard College, where she studied with Robert Kelly. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Frontier Poetry, Rookie Mag, Nimrod Literary Journal, The Lily, and Saint Heron. She represented the school in the Louder Than A Bomb festival from 2016-2018, and in her final year performed on the final stage at Auditorium Theatre, where she was granted the Literary Award by Patricia Smith. Jackson is an alum of the Spoken Word Club at Oak Park River Forest High School. Jackson received the Scholastic Art and Writing Award for her short story “Nursery Rhymes,” which won a silver medal at the national level. Jackson is an alum of the solo voice jazz ensemble at Merit School of Music. She is a product of the literary bloodline created by women like Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Joan Baez. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Jackson attempts to document her lineage of divine womanhood in a country that demands its erasure. Her work investigates a trail of language that leads from the South to the North. Jackson made her musical debut with her EP A Song for Every Chamber of the Heart, which was self-released. She is the author of BLOODSTONE COWBOY (Haymarket Books, 2019). She served as the 2019-2020 National Youth Poet Laureate and the 2018 Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago. ![]() Kara Jackson is the daughter of country folk. Her critically-acclaimed short fiction collection American Salvage, which consists of fourteen lush and rowdy stories of folks who are struggling to make sense of the twenty-first century, was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction. Her novel Q Road investigates the lives of a rural community where development pressures are bringing unwelcome change in the character of the land. Her collection Women and Other Animals details the lives of extraordinary females in rural and small town Michigan, and it won the AWP prize for short fiction her story "The Smallest Man in the World" has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. As president of Goulash Tours Inc., she has organized and led adventure tours in Russia and the Baltics, and all the way south to Romania and Bulgaria. and Canada, scaled the Swiss alps on her bicycle, and traveled with the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus selling snow cones. When she left home for the University of Chicago to study philosophy, her mother rented out her room. She learned to castrate small pigs, milk Jersey cows, and, when she was snowed in with chocolate, butter, and vanilla, to make remarkable chocolate candy. Bonnie Jo Campbell grew up on a small Michigan farm with her mother and four siblings in a house her grandfather Herlihy built in the shape of an H.
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