Jackson Howard is an editor and writer from Los Angeles who lives in Brooklyn.

He’s an Executive Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and its imprint AUWA (headed by Questlove), where he acquires and edits a broad range of fiction and nonfiction. Writers he has published include Judith Butler, Brontez Purnell, Catherine Lacey, Bryan Washington, Laura van den Berg, Madeline Cash, Henry Hoke, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Escoffery, Fernando A. Flores, Susan Straight, Imogen Binnie, Shon Faye, Thomas Grattan, Andrew Durbin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Venita Blackburn, Missouri Williams, and many others. Books he has edited have won or been nominated for the Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and several Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and PEN Awards.

A longtime Pitchfork contributor, his reviews, profiles, and essays have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Rolling Stone, The Ringer, W.,i-D, office, Document,and elsewhere.

In 2023, he was featured in New York magazine’s Power Issue and was named one of Harper’s BAZAAR’s 36 Voices of Now and part of Town & Country’s Creative Aristocracy. In 2022, he was named a Star Watch Honoree by Publishers Weekly. If you’re extra curious, you can read this interview with the critic Merve Emre here, this profile in Gagosian Quarterly here or this one in 10 Magazine USA here, this interview with the newsletter Language Arts here, or this interview with Vogue here.

He is on the advisory board of the Center for Californian Literature and the creative board of the Queer Nightlife Community Center, and is also part of the team behind the FSG Writer’s Fellowship.