Earlier this month, Mimi Wong’s The Offing letter to the editor, she revealed all the new changes happening at the literary journal. This includes her own announcement as the new editor of the literary magazine, which is dedicated “to amplify[ing], [promoting], and support[ing] these voices often missing from mainstream spaces.” However, the change of most note to the Los Ángeles literary community is the hiring of poet Ashaki M. Jackson as The Offing’s new Executive Editor. Jackson is a champion of “women’s and nonbinary writers” as seen “through her endeavors at VIDA and Women Who Submit.”

Ashaki M. Jackson is the author of two poetry chapbooks Language Lesson (Miel, 2016) and Surveillance (Writ Large, 2016). In these books she explores grief and injustice, the body/the black body and confronts forgetting. She’s a writer interested in the psychic and social forces that grips every body as asks what will you, and by extension us, do with this pain?

Ashaki M. Jackson will fit in well as The Offing’s new Executive Editor. Congratulations!