Jackson Bliss
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| Jackson Bliss | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jonathan Jackson Bliss Traverse City, Michigan |
| 💼 Occupation | Author, screenwriter, professor |
Jackson Bliss is a mixed-race conceptual writer best known for his short story collection Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, his speculative fiction hypertext Dukkha, My Love, and his essay "How the Internet Changed the Way We Read."
Personal life[edit]
Bliss grew up in Traverse City, Michigan, Encinitas, California, and Chicago, Illinois.
He has a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Oberlin College, an MFA in fiction from University of Notre Dame, a MA in English from University of Southern California, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He also began work on a MA in East Asian Studies at Yale University that remains unfinished.
He is multiracial and hapa with his mother being Japanese American and his father being of French and British descent. He lives in Los Angeles. He is married and has two dogs.[1]
Career[edit]
Academia[edit]
Bliss is a former assistant professor of creative writing and now the current Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University.[2]
Fiction[edit]
Bliss's debut short story collection, Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, was the winner of the 2020 Noemi Press Award in Prose and was published in 2021.[3]
His debut novel, Amnesia of June Bugs, will be published in April of 2022 by 7.13 Books.
His writing has appeared in various journals and newspapers including The New York Times,Tin House, Columbia Journal, Guernica, The Antioch Review, Witness, Fiction, The Kenyon Review, Joyland, Quarterly West, and ZYZZYVA.[4]
Nonfiction[edit]
Bliss's debut memoir, Dream Pop Origami, will be published in July of 2022 by Unsolicited Press.
His essays have appeared in various journals and newspapers including The New York Times, Boston Review, Triquarterly, Longreads, The Daily Dot, and Ploughshares. His essay, "How the Internet Changed the Way We Read," is considered an important text in the discourse of reading and technology.[5][6][7]
Hypertext[edit]
Bliss's speculative multimedia hypertext, Dukkha, My Love, was published in 2017.
Books[edit]
- Dukkha, My Love (2017)[8]
- Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021)[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ Gardner, Nick. "(Be)Longing in the Midwest: On Jackson Bliss' Counterfactual Love Stories". Cleveland Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ↑ "Jackson Bliss | English faculty: BGSU Arts & Sciences". Retrieved 2021-03-12.
- ↑ Stefanescu, Alina. "Dualities of Life and Fiction in Jackson Bliss' Counterfactual Love Stories". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ↑ Hurt, Bryan. "Writing the Kaleidoscope: A Conversation with Jackson Bliss". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ↑ American Library Association, ALA. "Read for Later - How We Read Now, Used Bookstores Make a Comeback, and Alternate App Futures". American Library Association. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
- ↑ Headlee, Celeste. "Why Slow Reading is Perfectly Okay". Read It Forward. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
- ↑ Higgins, Marissa. "This Is Your Brain On The Internet". Bustle. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
- ↑ Jackson Bliss (12 July 2017). Dukkha, My Love. Jackson Bliss Official Website. Search this book on
- ↑ Jackson Bliss (2021). Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments. Noemi Press. ISBN 978-1-9348-1997-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Jackson Bliss (2022). Amnesia of June Bugs. 7.13 Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Jackson Bliss (2022). Dream Pop Origami. Unsolicited Press. Search this book on
External links[edit]
Jackson Bliss official website
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