About

Jackson Burgess is a poet, novelist, and essayist based in Los Angeles.

Photo by Vamsi Chunduru

Author of Atrophy (Write Bloody Publishing, 2018) and Pocket Full of Glass (Tebot Bach, 2017), he’s the recipient of fellowships from the University of Southern California and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was the first-ever dual-admit to the fiction and poetry programs.

Jackson has placed poems and stories in The Los Angeles Review, The Cincinnati Review, PANK, Rattle, Fugue, Willow Springs, Tin House, and elsewhere. He is currently seeking representation.