Michael Jackman (born December 26, 1956) is an American

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writer, and college professor.

Life

Michael Jackman was born and raised in

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and attended

Belmont University Belmont University is a private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee. Descended from Belmont Women's College, founded in 1890 by schoolteachers Ida Hood and Susan Heron, the institution was incorporated in 1951 as Belmont College. It be ...

. In 1992, he moved to

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to attend

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where he studied under poet

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and fiction writer Sena Naslund. From 1992 to 2002, he taught at University of Louisville both while in this Master's and PhD programs as well as afterwards. He began teaching at

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in 2005 as a Visiting Lecturer and is currently Senior Lecturer in Writing. He also served as Expository Coach at

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's MFA Program in Spring 2010.

Work

Jackman is currently an editorial consultant for ''Indiana University Southeast Alumni Magazine'' and a

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to ''New Southerner Magazine.'' He previously served on the executive committee of the

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as well as the board of InKY, which runs the InKY Reading Series. He also served as an editor for Techrepublic.com, now owned by

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and wrote many articles for the site. In addition to TechRepublic.com, in 1999 Jackman served as ''

The Courier-Journal ''The Courier-Journal'', also known as the ''Louisville Courier Journal'' (and informally ''The C-J'' or ''The Courier''), is the highest circulation newspaper in Kentucky. It is owned by Gannett and billed as "Part of the ''USA Today'' Ne ...

''s first Web editor. His work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including in ''New Southerner Magazine'', ''Scribblers on the Roof'', ''The Merton Seasonal'', '' The Louisville Review'', ''Poetica'', and ''Tea: A Magazine'', just to name a few, and read for various book festivals. His journalistic work has appeared in publications such as '' Louisville Magazine'', ''

'', ''

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'', '' Business Communication Quarterly'', ''Kentucky Living'', ''

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'', ''Jewish Independent'' and ''

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'' among many others including publications for the University of Louisville. He has also written for major websites like a monthly column for The Auto Channel and several articles for CIO, a tech news magazine and web site. He has also had stories run on various public radio stations and shows as ''The Savvy Traveler'' on NPR as well as stories on stations

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, WMKY,

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, and

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and on other public radio stations through

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. He has performed his stories on folk singer John Gage'
''Kentucky Homefront''
radio show on

and has written the script for one ''Kentucky Homefront'' episode, Jackman founded the Writer's Workshop Project (WWP) in 2006, a monthly

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to fill "a gap between expensive college programs and workshops and grassroots workshops or solo writing efforts". He continues to direct the WWP, which also hosts community and social events.

Awards

Jackman was the recipient of the Louisville

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Award of Merit in 2005 for his column "Technicalities." He has also won and been nominated for various teaching awards, including Distinguished Teaching Award numerous times, TLC Committee for Freshman Retention, in 1993 and has been nominated for FACET (Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching).

References

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