Cassandra Jackson

Cassandra Jackson is a writer and professor of English at the College of New Jersey, where she teaches classes about African American literature and visual culture. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Emory University. She is a co-author of The Toni Morrison Book Club (2020), a genre-bending group memoir, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was selected as a Best Book of 2020 by Library Journal. She has also published two books on race in U.S. literature and art, and written about contemporary racial issues in personal essays published in HuffPost and The Washington Post. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.