Gary Jackson

Gary Jackson is a poet from Topeka, Kansas, and author of the collections origin story and Missing You, Metropolis, which won the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He co-edited The Future of Black, an anthology on Afrofuturism, Black comics, and superhero poetry. He is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he holds the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of English and directs the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. He is listed as a resident at La Maison Dora Maar in May 2026.