Joshilyn Jackson
Joshilyn Jackson is an American author (born Feb 27th, 1968). She received an MA in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997. She has written eight novels, which in order of publication are: A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty; Backs
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Joshilyn Jackson is an American author (born Feb 27th, 1968). She received an MA in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997. She has written eight novels, which in order of publication are: A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty; Backseat Saints; The Girl Who Stopped Swimming; Between, Georgia; Gods in Alabama; Someone Else's Love Story; The Opposite of Everyone; The Almost Sisters and Never Have I Ever. She has also written the novella My Own Miraculous. Jackson describes her writing style as "Weirdo Fiction with a Shot of Southern Gothic Influence for Smart People Who Can Catch the Nuances but Who Like Narrative Drive, and Who Have a Sense of Humor but Who Are Willing to Go Down to Dark Places". Jackson is a member of the board of Reforming Arts, a nonprofit which provides liberal arts classes to women in Georgia prisons.
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