Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an American poet and playwright.

Life
Her father, George Jackson, Sr., and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved to Chicago. In 1977, she graduated from Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago with an Master of Arts (postgraduate)M.A.

She joined the Organization for Black American Culture (OBAC) with young black writers like Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Carolyn Rodgers, Sterling Plumpp.

Jackson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

Awards

 * 1973 Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award in 1973
 * 1974 Academy of American Poets Award from Northwestern University in 1974
 * 1979 Illinois Art Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction in 1979
 * 1980 National Endowment For the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction
 * 1984 Hoyt W. Fuller Award for Literary Excellence
 * 1985 American Book Award
 * 1984 DuSable Museum Writers Seminar Poetry Prize
 * 1984 Pushcart Prize for Poetry
 * 1989 ETA Gala Award
 * 1996 Illinois Authors Literary Heritage Award
 * Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards
 * five for fiction and one for poetry; The Carl Sandburg Award
 * Chicago Sun-Times Friends of Literature Book of the Year Award
 * 2000 Illinois Art Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Playwriting
 * 2002 Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America

Poetry

 * The Greenville Club, 1977 (chapbook)
 * The Greenville Club, 1977 (chapbook)

Plays

 * Witness!, 1970
 * Shango Diaspora: An African American Myth of Womanhood and Love, 1980
 * When the Wind Blows, 1984 (better known as the eta production entitled Comfort Stew)
 * Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair,

Novels

 * Treemont Stone

Memoir

 * Apprenticeship in the House of Cowrie Shells