Stacy Nathaniel Jackson was born in Los Angeles and attended Ramona Convent College Preparatory School for Girls in a former incarnation of his life.  Stacy holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, a BAFA in studio Arts from the University of Southern California, and graduate work in sculpture at the University of Arizona.  He is a Cave Canem poetry fellow and was the recipient of an individual artists grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.  Author of the chapbook Camouflage published by MaCaHu Press, his poems, plays, and visual art have been published in Black Arts Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, New American Writing, and Foglifter among others.  As a poet and an afro-futurist playwright, Stacy’s current artistic practice explores gender and gender identity.  As an African American transgender artist-activist, he has served on various community boards including mayoral appointee of the San Francisco Transgender Civil Rights Implementation Taskforce and Fresh Meat Productions, a leading transgender and queer performing arts nonprofit.