Awards & Winners

Major Jackson

Date of Birth 09-September-1968
Place of Birth Philadelphia
(Pennsylvania, United States of America, Area code 215, Area code 267, Area codes 215 and 267)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Professor, Poet, Author
Major Jackson is an American poet and professor. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company and Hoops, both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle.

Awards by Major Jackson

Check all the awards nominated and won by Major Jackson.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Holding Company
W.W. Norton & Company

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Hoops

2003


2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Leaving Saturn