Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of the award-winning novel The River Where Blood is Born, and Hot Johnny (and the Women Who Loved Him), an Essence Magazine bestseller in hardcover fiction. She also co-edited the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and dramatic works are widely published and produced, appearing in eMerge Magazine, Both Sides: Stories from the Border, the Anthology of Appalachian Heritage, storySouth, Another Chicago Magazine, New Daughters of Africa, Ms. Magazine, Ocotillo Review, Obsidian, and others. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction.
At MacDowell, Jackson-Opoku revised a historical novel that explores centuries-long connections between China and people of African descent.
