Fiction

Angela Jackson-Brown

Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who is a member of the graduate faculty of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY, and in the fall semester of 2022, she will be joining the creative writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington as an Associate Professor.  She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. She has published her short fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and poetry in journals like The Louisville Journal and the Appalachian Review. She is the author of Drinking From a Bitter CupHouse RepairsWhen Stars Rain Down and The Light Always BreaksWhen Stars Rain Down is a highly acclaimed novel that received a starred review from the Library Journal and glowing reviews from Alabama Public Library, Buzzfeed, Parade Magazine, and Women’s Weekly, just to name a few. It was also named a finalist for the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction.

2022 Fiction Shortlist: When Stars Rain Down

When Stars Rain Down tells the story of Opal Pruitt and the summer of 1936 in Parsons, Georgia, where the arrival of the Ku Klux Klan shakes the tight-knit community and challenges the unspoken codes of conduct in their post-Reconstruction era town.

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