Born and raised in the DC Metro Area, Kosoko Jackson is currently a candidate at Southern New Hampshire’s Mountainview MFA program. He writes YA novels featuring African American queer protagonists and is a sensitivity reader for Big Five Publishers. Some of his favorite authors are Courtney Summers, Jen DeLuca, Adib Khorram, Casey McQuiston, Ian McEwan, Alex London, Andi Christopher, Dhonielle Clayton, Ryan LaSalla, Denise Williams and Natalie Parker.
Professionally, he is a digital media specialist and freelance political journalist. His personal essays and short stories have been featured on Medium, Thought Catalog, The Advocate and some literary magazines.
When not writing novels that champion holistic representation of black queer youth across genres, he can be found obsessing over movies, drinking his (umpteenth) London Fog, sampling odd tea flavors or spending far too much time on Twitter.
His 2021 YA debut, Yesterday is History, is published by SourceBooks Fire, and his adult #ownvoices queer romcom, I’m So (Not) Over You, will come out in 2022 with Berkley Romance.
Visit him at Kosokojackson.com or @kosokojackson on Twitter or Instagram.