Stacy Nathaniel Jackson

Stacy Nathaniel Jackson is a trans writer, poet, playwright, and visual artist originally from Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Electric Literature, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Georgia Review and elsewhere.

His debut novel The Ephemera Collector was published by Liveright in 2025 and shortlisted for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Allegiance, a docupoetics chapbook, was a finalist for the Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition.

His Afrofuturist play The Codex of Narma was a semi-finalist for the 2025 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and received a staged reading from the National Queer Theater, with an excerpt performed at Theater Alliance’s 2026 Hothouse New Play Block Party. Intelligence was a semi-finalist for NYCPlaywrights Black Women Genius monologue competition.

He has received support for his work as a Cave Canem poetry fellow, Hurston/Wright Foundation speculative fiction fellow, Jack Straw Cultural Center Writers Program fellow, Millay Arts Vincent Prize fellow, associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency #191 with Addae Moon in performance writing, and recipient of an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.