Jackson Burgess is a poet, author, and educator based in Los Angeles.
Author of Atrophy (Write Bloody Publishing, 2018), winner of the 2017 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, and Pocket Full of Glass (Tebot Bach, 2017), winner of the 2014 Clockwise Chapbook Competition, he’s the recipient of fellowships from the University of Southern California and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow and the first-ever dual-admit in fiction and poetry.
Jackson has placed poems and stories in The Los Angeles Review, The Cincinnati Review, PANK, Rattle, Fugue, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. He has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and at the St. Vincent’s Cardinal Manning Center on Skid Row and is the founder of the Burgess Workshop Studio, a creative mentorship and college application coaching platform.
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