Gary Jackson, born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, is the author of origin story (University of New Mexico, 2021) and Missing You, Metropolis (Graywolf, 2010), which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He's also co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair, 2021). His poems have appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, The Sun, Los Angeles Review of Books, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. He's been published in Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology, was featured in the 2013 New American Poetry Series by the Poetry Society of America, and is the recipient of both a Cave Canem and Bread Loaf fellowship. He currently teaches in the MFA program as well as undergraduate creative writing at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC.

Books by Gary Jackson:

Other poems on the web by Gary Jackson:
Four poems
"Magneto Eyes Strange Fruit"
"Multiple Man: Guest-starring me & You"
Four poems

About origin story:

"origin story is both intensely intimate and utterly everyman. These are poems of both great weight and profound lightness. . . It is impossible to read origin story and not feel obliged to think hard about one's own upbringing, impossible not to be moved and changed by what these poems bring to light."
—Tim Seibles