Danielle Amir Jackson is a Memphis-born writer and editor whose essays on literature, music, and film have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Bookforum, The American Scholar, the Criterion Collection, and more. She is the recipient of awards, fellowships, and residencies from Brown University, New York University, Hedgebrook, the Aspen Institute, and Critical Minded. Danielle is at work on her first book, about women in the blues, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Danielle is the managing editor at sphere: a journal of jazz in motion, a new magazine from the Jazz Generations Initiative. In 2021, she was appointed editor-in-chief of the Oxford American. During her tenure, the magazine received the Whiting Foundation’s Literary Magazine Prize, and it was a finalist for General Excellence with the American Society of Magazine Editors and the James Beard Foundation.