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B. 1951Angela Jackson is a Chicago poet, playwright, and novelist. She has received numerous honors for both fiction and poetry, including the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council.
Her works include: the poetry collections More Than Meat and Raiment (2022), It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time (2015), All...
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