Colter Jackson

Colter Jackson works as a freelance writer and illustrator and has written scripts for Tina Fey and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, only one of which was funny. She is the author and illustrator of the picture book Elephants Make Fine Friends (Penguin 2015). You can find more of her work in Tin House, The Rumpus, Litro Magazine and the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology. She has been a Ledig House International Fellow and a recipient of the Helene Wurlitzer Grant. In 2014, she was shortlisted for the Lorian Hemingway Short Story competition. She has been awarded fellowships for Hedgebrook, MacDowell and UCROSS.