Marcus Jackson is an award-winning poet and a visual artist whose poems and photographs have appeared in such publications as The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. His second book of poems, entitled Pardon My Heart (Northwestern University Press), was released in 2018. Jackson’s forthcoming book of street portraits and poems, Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices, will be out in June 2026. Jackson lives with his wife and child in Columbus, Ohio, and directs the creative writing MFA at Ohio State.