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. His Afrofuturist play The Codex of Narma was a semifinalist for the 2025 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and received a staged reading from the National Queer Theater. His monologue Intelligence was a semifinalist for NYCPlaywrights 2026 Black Women Genius monologue competition. An excerpt of The Codex of Narma was selected to be performed at Theater Alliance's 2026 Hothouse New Play Block Party. 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 was recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission individual artist grant. Stacy is a graduate of USC’s Roski School of Art and Design, holds an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University with a concentration in playwriting, and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.