Major
Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry: Hoops (Norton: 2006) and Leaving Saturn
(University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle
Award. Hoops was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literature - Poetry.
His third volume of poetry Holding Company is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. He is a recipient of a Whiting
Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction
with the Library of Congress. He served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at
Harvard University and as the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Major Jackson
is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington
Writing Seminars. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.
