Naomi Jackson
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
About
Naomi Jackson is an author whose research examines coming-of-age novels, Black women’s fiction, and postcolonial literature from the Caribbean and Africa. She studied fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and traveled to South Africa on a Fulbright scholarship, where she received an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Cape Town. She is a co-teacher of the Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat at the institute.