curriculum vitae

    • Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Fellowship - (2026)

    • Abode Press Fellowship - (2026)

    • Gotham Writers Workshop Writers of Color Scholarship - (2025)

    • Literary Support Award Boston Writers of Color - (2025)

  • 2026

    • Winter Craft Seminar : The Art of The First Person Short Story (W/ Jess Row)

    Work Room at The Shipman Agency (via competitive scholarship)

    • Craft Workshop : Starting and Finishing Stories and Novels (W/ Maurice Carlos Ruffin)  Poets & Writers

    2025

    • Fall Fiction Workshop : Writing Fiction (W/ T. Clark)

    New Orleans Writers Workshop

    • Summer Fiction Workshop : Form and Obstacle (W/ J.D. Hosemann)

    New Orleans Writers Workshop

    • Spring Fiction Workshop : The Invented World (W/ Chin-Sun Lee)

    New Orleans Writers Workshop

    2024

    • Fall Fiction Workshop : The Art of The Short Story (W/ T. Clark)

    New Orleans Writers Workshop

    • Spring Fiction Workshop : Writing Fiction (W/ T. Clark)

    New Orleans Writers Workshop

    • Winter Fiction Workshop : Dynamic Scene Building (W/ Allison Alsup)

    New Orleans Writers Workshop

    • FORTHCOMING: Callaloo 44.4 Edition

    2026

    2021

Toward a Theory of Black Spiritual Realism: A Convergence of The Black Church, Ancestral Spirit Technology, and the Limits of “Magical Realism” in Black Literature by Jonathan Jackson Jr.

Black stories involving folkways, ghosts, conjure, prophecy, and ancestral presence are often called magical realism. Black Spiritual Realism offers a more culturally precise way to understand them.

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