Marni Jackson

Marni Jackson is a Canadian journalist. She is most noted for her 1992 memoir The Mother Zone, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1993, and her 2002 non-fiction book Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign, which was shortlisted for the Pearson Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

A writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Maclean's, Saturday Night and The Walrus, Jackson has also published the non-fiction book Home Free: The Myth of the Empty Nest (2010), and the short story collection Don't I Know You? (2016). She was a cohost of TVOntario's literary talk show Imprint from 1995 to 1997.

Jackson is married to journalist and filmmaker Brian D. Johnson, and was credited as a co-writer of his 2015 documentary film Al Purdy Was Here.

In December 2014 Maclean's magazine published Jackson's account of harassment she experienced from her co-host, Hargurchet Singh Bhabra. Jackson and Bhabra had been co-hosts of a show on books, entitled Imprint, during its first season, in 1994.