Naomi Jackson

Biography

Naomi Jackson is author of The Star Side of Bird Hill (Penguin, 2015), which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, and named an Honor Book for Fiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Jackson studied fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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ESSAYS / Summer 2017

Joy Comes in the Morning

By Naomi Jackson ,  Photography by Shawn Theodore

One morning last June, six days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, I woke up in the bed I made for myself.