The Common Foundation – 2016 Author Postcard Auction
Auction Ends: Dec 10, 2016 07:00 AM EST

Memorabilia

Personalized Postcard from Naomi Jackson

Item Number
172
Estimated Value
Priceless
Sold
40 USD to mcd53d295
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

Item Description

Recieve a handwritten note from the author of The Star Side of Bird Hill

Naomi Jackson is author of The Star Side of Bird Hill, published by Penguin Press in 2015. The Star Side of Bird Hill was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction and long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.  It won Late Night Library's Debut-litzer prize, was named an Honor Book for Fiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and was selected for the American Booksellers Association’s Indies Introduce and Indies Next List programs.  The book has been reviewed by The New York TimesThe New YorkerKirkus Reviews, NPR, and Entertainment Weekly, which called Star Side “a gem of a book.” Publishers Weekly named Jackson a "Writer to Watch."

Her shorter work has appeared in literary journals and magazines in the United States and abroad.  She is the recipient of residencies and fellowships from Bread Loaf, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, Kelly Writers House, Hedgebrook, and the Camargo and Point Foundations.

Jackson has taught at the University of Iowa, University of Pennsylvania, City College of New York, Oberlin College, and currently works as Visiting Writer at Amherst College. 

 

Item Special Note

Personalized postcards make great gifts! Authors will mail postcards in time for the holidays.