- M.F.A., Creative Writing, Spalding University, 2009
- M.A., English, Auburn University, 1996
- B.S., Business Administration, Troy University, 1992
Angela Jackson-Brown
Associate Professor, English
Director, Creative Writing
- andjack@iu.edu
- Ballantine Hall 429
- Office Hours
Education
Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who is the Director of Creative Writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also teaches in the graduate program at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. She has published her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in journals like The Louisville Journal and the Appalachian Review. She is the author of Drinking From a Bitter Cup, House Repairs, When Stars Rain Down, The Light Always Breaks and Homeward. Her poetry collection, House Repairs, was the winner of the Alabama Library Association Poetry Award in 2021. Her novels have received starred reviews from the Library Journal and glowing reviews from Alabama Public Library, Buzzfeed, Parade Magazine, and Women’s Weekly, just to name a few. When Stars Rain Down was named a finalist for the 2021 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction, longlisted for the Granum Foundation Award, and shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Award. In October of 2023, Angela’s novel, Homeward, a follow-up to When Stars Rain Down, was published by Harper Muse and was recently long-listed for the 2024 Indiana Authors Award. In December of 2024, her novel, Untethered, was published by Harper Muse.
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