Background
Sandra was born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
W.E.B. Du Bois Library and Campus Center of University of Massachusetts Amherst, where Sandra Jackson-Opoku earned her Bachelor of arts in 1976.
Alexandroff Campus Center of Columbia College Chicago, where Sandra Jackson-Opoku majored in Journalism.
Sandra Jackson-Opoku outside White Pine Cottage retreat in New Buffalo, Michigan.
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
(In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen wor...)
In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen worlds are seamlessly joined-the spirit realms where the great river goddess and ancestor mothers watch over the lives of their descendants, both the living and those not yet born.
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1997
journalist novelist screenwriter poet
Sandra was born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Sandra attended Columbia College Chicago, where she majored in Journalism before going on to study Communications and Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, earning her Bachelor of arts in 1976, having studied under Chinua Achebe and Michael Thelwell.
Sandra Jackson-Opoku’s first novel The River Where Blood Is Born was published in 1997. She worked on the book for over twenty years after being inspired by a 1975 trip to Africa. The review in the Chicago Sun-Times said: "Besides its sheer literary beauty, Jackson-Opoku’s story-weaving will give readers a new spiritual dimension from which to consider the meaning of life."
To mark what would have been the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), Jackson-Opoku co-edited, with Quraysh Ali Lansana, the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks (2017). In a review for The New York Times, Claudia Rankine wrote that in Revise the Psalm "we get a keen sense of the poet and her fierce commitment to community engagement".
Jackson-Opoku's fiction, poetry, and nonfiction writings have been widely published in outlets including The Los Angeles Times, Ms. Magazine, The Literary Traveller, Transitions Abroad, Rolling Out, Soul of America, Islands Magazine, and elsewhere.
She has taught Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University and at Columbia College, as well as at other educational institutions and at workshops around the world. She is full time faculty at Chicago State University where she teaches literature and writing courses in the Department of English, Foreign Languages and Literature.
(In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen wor...)
1997Quotations: “Acquire the habit of happiness and ride it like a whale.”