Illinois Authors

Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Born: 1953 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Jackson-Opoku was born and raised in Chicago. She attended Columbia College in Chicago for three years, majoring in Journalism.

Biography: Sandra Jackson-Opoku is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, screenwriter, and journalist who writes frequently on culture and travel in the African diaspora.

• '''''The River Where Blood is Born'''''
• -- Black Caucus Award for Best Fiction, American Library Association, 1998

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sandra.jacksonopoku
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-jackson-opoku-81625617
Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sandra-jackson-opoku
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Jackson-Opoku

Selected Titles

	Hot Johnny (and the women who loved him) / ISBN: 0345435087 OCLC: 48843033 One World, New York : 2002, ©2001.
	The river where blood is born / ISBN: 034542476X OCLC: 39852954 Ballantine, New York : 1998, ©1997. A delicate tapestry unfolds within these pages, a story stitched together with the threads of Ananse, the spider of African myth, and the wisdom of the ancestors.