Greg Jackson | Granta

Greg Jackson

Greg Jackson has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, MacDowell Colony, and the University of Virginia’s MFA program. A winner of the Balch and Henfield Prizes and a finalist for the 2014 National Magazine Award in Fiction, his short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and VQR.

Publications

Books

The Dimensions of a Cave

Greg Jackson

£18.99
American Fiction

Prodigals

Greg Jackson

£8.99

Greg Jackson on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Notes on Craft

Greg Jackson

‘It is hard to devote yourself to something that makes you feel constantly like an amateur.’

Greg Jackson on writing and teaching fiction.

In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Greg Jackson | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Greg Jackson & Luke Neima

‘A lot of writing is confronting your own failure, again and again and again’

Fiction | Issue 139 padlock
Fiction | Issue 139 padlock

Country & Eastern

Greg Jackson

‘Anyone could find courage when the World-Historical Spirit had selected you to enact your martyrdom on the Six O’Clock News. But in the shadows, in secret, unrecognized?’

Fiction | Issue 139
Fiction | Issue 139

Dynamics in the Storm

Greg Jackson

‘You only have time to live your own life, and mine was falling apart.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 139
Essays & Memoir | Issue 139

Greg Jackson | First Sentence

Greg Jackson

‘I am being, I believe, about as forthright as I am being coy.’

Fiction | Issue 132 padlock
Fiction | Issue 132 padlock

Epithalamium

Greg Jackson

‘Hara had stumbled on a kind of play, as if they were sisters left alone by their parents for the first time to explore the different ways a day could be deconstructed.‘

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