Angela Jackson
Author of Where I Must Go

Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi. Her family moved to Chicago, Illinois, while she was a child. The impact of the two locations is evident in her poetry, which evinces southern and midwestern language influences. While at Northwestern University, Jackson emerged as a poet during the Black Arts movement. One of the talented participants in the writer's workshop of Chicago's Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), Jackson produces work reflective of the Black Arts movement and OBAC's aesthetic thrust. OBAC was one of the many organizations that successfully promoted art for an African American audience that was representational and functional in form and was a major influence on Jackson's style and philosophy. She entered the writer's workshop in 1970 and participated with founding members Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Carolyn M. Rodgers, and Johari Amini (Jewel Lattimore). In 1976 she succeeded Hoyt Fuller as coordinator. The organization's and the artists' objectives were production of high-quality literature reflecting the black experience, definition of standards by which such literature was to be judged, and development of black critics qualified to evaluate black literature accordingly while conscious of the dynamics of Western literary standards.

"Through lyrical writing and finely drawn characters, acclaimed poet Jackson captures the pain and joy of self-discovery in late adolescence, as well as struggles of race and class identity, against the backdrop of racial tensions on a college campus in the 1960s." - starred review, Booklist

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