Alexis V. Jackson is a Philadelphia-born, San Diego-based writer and teacher whose work has appeared in Jubilat, The Amistad, La Libreta, Solstice Literary Magazine, and 805 Lit among others. Jackson earned her MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts and her BA in English from Messiah University. Erica Hunt selected MY SISTERS' COUNTRY as second- place winner of Kore Press Institute's 2019 Poetry Prize. Jackson lectures in the University of San Diego's English Department, and has taught poetry at Messiah University.