Yolande Clark-Jackson
Yolande Clark-Jackson
Yolande Clark-Jackson is a multi-disciplinary storyteller, children’s book author, and teaching artist. Her interest lies in using stories and materials for remembering, reclaiming, and reimagining. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and is an award-winning personal essayist and author of the award-winning children’s book, Rocko's Big Launch. Her non-fiction essay “How You Get There” was among the top twelve awarded in the 2021 Winning Writers contest. She is a 2021 Eckerd College McCartt Fellowship awardee and one of seven artists awarded the 2022 James Weldon Johnson Foundation artist-in-residency fellowship. Her nonfiction writing can be found in The HuffPost personal, Sisters Newsletter from AARP, Care.com, The University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, and the Chicken Soup for Soul: I’m Speaking Now anthology, and many others. She is currently seeking representation for her first book of narrative nonfiction and expanding on a past Black family archive project led by The Sojourner Truth Leadership Circle of Auburn Seminary. Yolande’s art installation Seed and Story: An exploration of one family’s history with cotton and their sharecropping past is currently showing at City Arts Gallery in Orlando until July 16, 2022.