Brian Keith Jackson (born 1968) is an American novelist, essayist and culture writer based in Harlem, New York.
His plays were performed and read at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, La Mama, Barnes and Noble and Theatre for the New City.
[4] He began writing novels in order to "cut out the middle man" and have direct impact and trust with his audience.
[5] Inspired by Jackson's great-grandmother's rural Southern experience, he wrote his first novel in 1997, at age 29, The View From Here (1997), which was set in 1950s Mississippi.
[13] Jackson's first novel was completed with a fellowship from Art Matters Foundation and it won the American Library Association Black Caucus' First Fiction Award.