Mitchell Jackson

Mitchell S. Jackson’s acclaimed debut novel The Residue Years won the Whiting Award and the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence, and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Jackson’s honors include fellowships from TED, the Lannan Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Center for Fiction. His writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, Salon, and Tin House. He serves on the faculty at NYU and Columbia University.