Jackson, Spoon

Spoon Jackson was born in Barstow, California, the heart of the high desert. He began serving a life without possibility of parole sentence at age twenty.

Jackson discovered himself as a writer at San Quentin in the 1980s. He played Pozzo in the prison's 1988 production of Waiting for Godot, which brought him international attention. Since then Jackson has written and published plays, poetry, novels, fairy tales, short stories, essays, and a memoir. His work has won four awards from PEN's Prison Writing Program, and has been featured in films, plays, articles, books, and music suites. Jackso...