![]() Even when I had an agent back in 2016, she couldn’t sell my mixed-race coming-of-age novel about ninjas, cults, androids, & racial self-discovery because editors didn’t like Asian American male narrators with attitude problems. My liberal arts college didn’t accept upperclassmen to its creative writing program, I was rejected from the very first fiction workshop I applied to in Seattle, I received hundreds upon hundreds of rejections by literary agents, editors, & hiring committees. No, it’s been a rocky road filled with potholes, landmines, detours, & decayed infrastructure since the very beginning. We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road? I found self-empowerment, self-realization, musicality, & personal/cultural discovery in the writing process. ![]() It’s not an overstatement to claim that writing has been a fundamental part of my identity since I was a teenager. ![]() I eventually went to Notre Dame for my MFA and USC for my PhD in Literature & Creative Writing. ![]() I started writing seriously in high school, wrote my first novel in college (but never tried to publish it), & took my first creative writing workshops after a stint in the Peace Corps in West Africa. Hi Jackson, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today? Today we’d like to introduce you to Jackson Bliss. ![]()
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