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Angela Jackson-Brown

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in Montgomery, AL, The United States

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Fiction, Poetry

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Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who teaches Creative Writing at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also teaches in the Naslund-Mann School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the Spalding Naslund-Mann low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing. She is the author of several novels, including the soon-to-be released, Homeward, and has published in numerous literary journals. Her publisher is Harper Muse, an imprint of HarperCollins.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 6,639 ratings · 1,257 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	When Stars Rain Down 4.14 avg rating — 2,786 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untethered: A Novel 4.13 avg rating — 1,760 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Light Always Breaks 3.68 avg rating — 839 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homeward 4.06 avg rating — 704 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drinking from a Bitter Cup 4.22 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indy Writes Books: A Book Lover's Anthology by M. Travis DiNicola (Editor), Zach Roth (Editor), Zachary Roth (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging by Jay Lamar (Contributor), Jennifer Horne (contributor), Gail Andrews (contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Writer's Life: Why I Write Every Day

A month after my 30th birthday, I had a stroke. I was paralyzed on my left side and my language skills were greatly affected. While I lay in the ICU, terrified that I would not live long enough to see my son become an adult man, I began to bargain with God/Higher Power.

My prayer/request/plea was to just live to see him become an adult. That was it. I didn't think I had any right to ask for more Read more of this blog post »

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Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2)

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“The sin is never as much about the act itself but how we act after we sin.”
― Angela Jackson-Brown, Homeward: A Novel

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“freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
― Angela Jackson-Brown, Homeward: A Novel

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“The more I thought about all of this, the more I knew this for sure—until we were all free to choose, none us were free.”
― Angela Jackson-Brown, Homeward: A Novel

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Mach Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll

The Storm We Made

by Vanessa Chan

4 votes, 22.2%

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3 votes, 16.7%

The One

by John Marrs

3 votes, 16.7%

Her Deadly Game

by Robert Dugoni

2 votes, 11.1%

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

by Patrick Bringley

2 votes, 11.1%

The Fury

by Alex Michaelides

1 vote, 5.6%

Wandering Stars

by Tommy Orange

1 vote, 5.6%

Good Night, Irene

by Luis Alberto Urrea

1 vote, 5.6%

Mystic River

by Dennis Lehane

1 vote, 5.6%

Homeward

by Angela Jackson-Brown

0 votes, 0.0%

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Angela’s Quotes

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

tags: color, god, purple, religion

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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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