Jeremy Jackson

Jeremy Jackson was raised in the Ozark borderlands of central Missouri on a small farm. He attended Vassar College, where he won the English Department Prize for Fiction. After college he earned his M.F.A. at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, where he studied under Frank Conroy, Marilynne Robinson, and James Alan McPherson. While in the Workshop, he was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship.

Jeremy's first novel, Life at These Speeds, was published in 2002. It was a selection of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers program, a Booklist Editor's Choice, and is currently being developed as a feature film. In 2004, Jeremy's second novel, In Summer, was a BookSense Recommended Book.

Jeremy has also written three cookbooks: The Cornbread Book, Desserts that Have Killed Better Men Than Me, and Good Day for a Picnic. The Cornbread Book was nominated for a James Berad Award. His articles about food appeared in The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune, and he was featured in Food and Wine magazine. He has appeared on NBC's Today Show, NPR's All Things Considered, and American Public Media's The Splendid Table.

Jeremy published two books for teenagers under the pseudonym Alex Bradley. 24 Girls in 7 Days (2005) and Hot Lunch (2007) were teen comedies. 24 Girls in 7 Days was translated into several languages.

Jeremy has taught at Vassar College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Grinnell College, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. He's the recipient of a Henfield Prize, a James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, and two Iowa Arts Council Grants. He's represented by Jennifer Carlson at Dunow, Carlson, and Lerner in New York.