Major Jackson and Stuart Nadler

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Major Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry: Holding Company and Hoops, both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle, and Roll Deep. Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry: Roll Deep, Holding Company, Hoops, and Leaving Saturn. He is the editor of Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. He has published poems and essays in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Callaloo, The New Yorker, The New York Times Style Magazine, Poetry, Tin House, and among other literary journals. Jackson is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He took a BA from Temple University and an MFA from the University of Oregon. He lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the poetry editor of the Harvard Review.

Stuart Nadler is the author of two novels and a short story collection, including Wise Men, The Book of Life, and, most recently, The Inseparables. Nadler’s first novel, Wise Men, was named a Barnes and Nobel Discover Great New Writers selection, a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, and has been translated into five languages. Stuart Nadler is the author of two novels and a short story collection. His first novel, Wise Men (Little, Brown), was named a Barnes and Nobel Discover Great New Writers selection, a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, and has been translated into five languages. His story collection, The Book of Life (Little, Brown), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Story Prize. His most recent novel, The Inseparables (Little, Brown), was published in July, 2016. He holds a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teaching-Writing Fellow. He was also the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. He has taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin, Connecticut College, and now teaches at Boston College. In 2012 he was a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation.