This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Didi Jackson and Major Jackson
About
Didi Jackson is the author of Moon Jar (Red Hen Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and have been selected for the Best American Poetry series and Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and serves as a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Vanderbilt University.
Major Jackson is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (Norton, 2020). A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Nashville, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the poetry editor of the Harvard Review.