Jared Jackson is the literary programs and Emerging Voices program director at PEN America, where he oversees writing programs including the Emerging Voices Fellowship, the Dreaming Out Loud workshop series, and the Worker Writers School. Additionally, he administers the New York office’s PEN Out Loud series, PEN America’s flagship literary conversation series showcasing literary excellence and a wide range of diverse voices. In 2022, he was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Executive Leader of Color.
Also a writer, editor, and educator, his writing has been published in the Best American Short Stories 2023, New York Times Book Review, Yale Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, n+1, and elsewhere. He has been awarded residencies and fellowships from MacDowell (’21,’23), Yaddo, Center for Fiction, Baldwin for the Arts, Tin House, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Plympton’s Writing Downtown Residency. He was a finalist for the 2023 Granum Foundation Prize. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where he was a Chair’s Fellow, Creative Writing Teaching Fellow, and an adjunct assistant professor.