| Summary: | Playwright and poet Angela Jackson was born on July 25, 1951 in Greenville, Mississippi. Jackson received her B.A. degree from Northwestern University and went on to earn her M.A. degree from the University of Chicago. An Organization for Black American Culture (OBAC) poet, she was published in Black World in 1971. Jackson's first book, Voodoo Love Magic was published in 1974. She won the Hoyt W. Fuller Award in 1984 and six Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards. In 2002, she received the Shelley Memorial Award. Jackson's poetry books include: The Greenville Club, 1977; Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E, 1985; The Man with the White Liver, 1993; and All These Roads Be Luminous, 1997. Her plays include Witness!, 1970, and Shango Diaspora: An African American Myth of Womanhood and Love, 1980. Her memoir is entitled Apprenticeship in the House of Cowrie Shells. She won The Carl Sandburg Award among others.
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