Danielle Amir Jackson

Danielle Amir Jackson is a Memphis-born writer and since 2021, the editor-in-chief of the Oxford American, a quarterly literary and culture magazine that explores the complexity and vitality of the American South. During her tenure, the magazine has been a finalist for awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors and the James Beard Foundation, and has received the Whiting Foundation’s Literary Magazine Prize. Her writing on books, music, and film has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Bookforum, the Criterion Collection, and more. She is at work on her first book, about women in the blues, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.