Jeff Jackson holds an MFA from NYU and is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award–winning Collapsable Giraffe company.
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 — Eimear McBride, New Statesman ‘Style is
pre-eminent in Jeff Jackson's eerie and enigmatic debut. The prose
works like the expressionless masks worn by killers in horror
films.’
— Wall Street Journal 'So powerful it reaffirms my belief that the
contemporary can still do remarkable things.'
— Lee Rourke 'There are few coming-of-age-esque novels that don’t
make me feel like I’m being lied to, manipulated into caring to the
point where I can’t care at all. Mira Corpora is one of those
few.'
— VICE ‘It's fine work in its manic pacing and its summoning of
certain cultural emblems. Present tense with a vengeance. I hope
the book finds the serious readers who are out there waiting for
this kind of fiction to hit them in the face.’
— Don DeLillo ‘[A] mesmerizing debut, which reads like some cross
between Bruno Schulz and the backstories of random characters from
Penelope Spheeris’ 1984 film Suburbia. It’s the overarching
sensibility that also puts Mira Corpora in a unique group of books
that can only be dubbed Punk Lit. ‘
— Flavorwire ‘Jeff Jackson's 'Mira Corpora' is a moving elegy to
lost childhood in the dark recesses of America, where both magic
and bleakness frequently occur. Jackson is a strong, powerful
storyteller, occupying the space where Huck Finn, Dennis Cooper,
Lana Del Ray, and Gus Van Sant meet.’
– Niven Govinden
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