Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry: Hoops (Norton: 2006), a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literature–Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. A recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Jackson is an Associate Professor of English at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.