Linda Susan Jackson is the author of Truth Be Told (Four Way Books) and What Yellow Sounds Like (Tia Chucha Press), a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Paterson Prize. 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, the Broadside Series of the Center for Book Arts, Crab Orchard Review, Harvard Review, the Los Angeles Review, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora and Ploughshares, among others, and has been featured in Brooklyn Poets, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day and Poets on Poetry series as well as in the audio archive of From the Fishouse.  She is a retired associate professor of English from Medgar Evers College/CUNY.