Literature Grant
2020 Spring Grantee
Colter Jackson
Colter Jackson is a writer and illustrator living in New York City. Her work is concentrated in complicated family relationships and the human capacity to forgive and to love broken things. She is the author and illustrator of the picture books The Rhino Suit (Sounds True 2021) and Elephants Make Fine Friends (Penguin 2015). You can find more of her work in The New York Times, Tin House, Epoch, Bellevue Literary Review, Post Road Magazine (forthcoming), Hippocampus Magazine, GOOD Magazine and The Rumpus.
“The project I plan to pursue with the Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant is a nonfiction essay collection called “Mother”. Part personal narrative, part childhood reckoning, part social critique, these essays examine and reflect on the difficult relationship I have with my own mother and explore larger questions of poverty, domestic abuse, environmental pollution and the complexities of motherhood.”
Colter has been a Ledig House International Fellow and a recipient of the Helene Wurlitzer Grant. She has been awarded residencies for Hedgebrook, MacDowell, UCROSS, Millay and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Raised in rural Missouri, Colter has a soft spot for wide, blue skies, Dolly Parton and tomatoes from a garden. She is crazy for dogs and the color red.
Please visit Colter’s Instagram and her website for more information.