Department of English

Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright. She has published her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in journals like The Louisville Journal and the Appalachian Review, and her work has ben anthologized in books like Revising The Elegy and Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers. Her academic research on the topics of Co-Constructed Autoethnography, Collaborative Teaching, Critical Service-Learning and E-Learning has been showcased in publications like the Journal of Black Studies and The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education.

She is the playwright and producer of several plays, including Anna’s Wings, Black Lives Matter (Too), It Is Well, and Still Singing Those Weary Blues. She has been commissioned to write several plays, including the musical Dear Bobby which she collaborated on with a former colleague for the Kennedy King Memorial Initiative. In the spring of 2023, Jefferson State Community College Theatre Company in Birmingham, AL will debut her newest play, Trailer Park Love Story.

She is the author of Drinking From a Bitter Cup, House Repairs, When Stars Rain Down and the upcoming novel, The Light Always Breaks. When Stars Rain Down is a highly acclaimed novel that received a starred review from the Library Journal and glowing reviews from Alabama Public Library, Buzzfeed, Parade Magazine, and Women’s Weekly. When Stars Rain Down was also named a finalist for the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction. Her poetry collection, House Repairs, was awarded the Alabama Author Award in Poetry by the Alabama Library Association in the spring of 2021.