Jackson Lassiter
Jackson Lassiter lives and writes in Washington, DC. His work has most recently appeared in OVS Magazine, Prime Mincer, Tidal Basin Review, and DuPage Valley Review. He is the recipient of the 2009 Larry Neal Writing Award presented by the DC Arts Council, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and was awarded a 2011 Writers in the Heartland Residency. He is currently at work on a multi-artist, multi-media collaborative project with a scheduled gallery opening November, 2011 (Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC).
Reading List
From Angola to KFC
The Spirits at Nzinga’s Feet Twilight settles along the coast of Angola, where Nzinga has been placed at water’s edge. A village, home for all her thirteen years, lies behind – she can sense its dying fires flickering against her …