Brian Keith Jackson

Brian Keith Jackson (born 1968) is an American novelist, essayist and culture writer based in Harlem, New York.

Early life and education Jackson was raised in Monroe, Louisiana, the only child of a middle-class family. He was influenced by the compassion and wisdoms bequeathed to him by his great-grandmother, whom he knew personally and who survived the end of slavery. He earned a bachelor's degree, studying journalism, from University of Louisiana in Monroe. After graduating Jackson moved to Flint, Michigan and began working on a newspaper there. It was compared to Alice Walker's The Color Purple and translated to French and a best seller in South Africa. It was on the artist Kehinde Wiley's ten favorite books in 2016.

Awards Jackson's first novel was completed with a fellowship from Art Matters Foundation and it won the American Library Association Black Caucus' First Fiction Award. He won a fellowship from the Millay Colony of the Arts. When Jackson moved to New York he was a model for ACT UP.