Linda Susan Jackson is the author of What Yellow Sounds Like (Tia Chucha Press), a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Paterson Prize and two chapbooks, Vitelline Blues and A History of Beauty, both published by Black-eyed Susan Publishing. She has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Calabash International Literary Festival, Soul Mountain Writers Retreat and The Frost Place. Her work has appeared in Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Center for Book Arts Broadside Publications, Crab Orchard Review, Harvard Review, Heliotrope, Los Angeles Review, Mission at Tenth Inter-arts Journal, Obsidian: Literature of the African Diaspora, Ploughshares, and Rivendell, among others, and has been featured on The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, and From the Fishouse. She's a retired associate professor of English from Medgar Evers College/CUNY.