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Sandra Jackson-Opoku was born on 1953 in Chicago, IL. Discover Sandra Jackson-Opoku's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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| Age | 70 years old |
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| Born | , 1953 |
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| Birthplace | Chicago, IL |
| Nationality | IL |
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Sandra Jackson-Opoku Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Sandra Jackson-Opoku Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Sandra Jackson-Opoku worth at the age of 70 years old? Sandra Jackson-Opoku’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from IL. We have estimated Sandra Jackson-Opoku's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 | $1 Million - $5 Million |
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| Net Worth in 2022 | Pending |
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Born and brought up in Chicago, Illinois, she attended Columbia College Chicago, where she majored in Journalism before going on to study Communications and Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, earning her BA in 1976, having studied under Chinua Achebe and Michael Thelwell, whom she cites as literary influences in addition to Toni Morrison and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Her first novel, The River Where Blood Is Born, inspired by a trip to Africa in 1975, was published in 1997, winning the American Library Association Black Caucus Award for Best Fiction. The review in the Chicago Sun-Times said: "Besides its sheer literary beauty, Jackson-Opoku’s story-weaving will give readers a new spiritual dimension from which to consider the meaning of life." She is also the author of a 2001 novel, about which Publishers Weekly wrote: "Jackson-Opoku's ability to craft memorable characters with distinct temperaments and sensibilities marks her as a writer to be reckoned with." As a children's writer, she has received the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Colen Award in New Children's Writing and a Maeve Marie Fellowship for Children’s Writing at the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow.
Sandra Jackson-Opoku (born 1953) is an American poet, novelist, screenwriter, and journalist, whose writing often focuses on culture and travel in the African diaspora. She has been the recipient of several awards, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the American Antiquarian Society. Her novels include The River Where Blood is Born (1997), which won the American Library Association Black Caucus Award for Best Fiction, and Hot Johnny (and the Women Whom Loved Him), which was an Essence magazine bestseller in hardcover fiction. She has also taught literature and creative writing at educational institutions internationally, including at Columbia College Chicago, the University of Miami, Nova Southeastern University, the Writer's Studio at the University of Chicago, the North Country Institute for Writers of Color, the Hurston-Wright Writers Workshop, and Chicago State University.
To mark what would have been the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), Jackson-Opoku co-edited, with Quraysh Ali Lansana, the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks (2017). Featuring contributions from such writers as Angela Jackson, Sandra Cisneros, Rita Dove, and Diane Glancy, it was described in The Chicago Review of Books as "absolutely essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the impact Brooks made on the arts and activism, not just in Chicago but throughout the country." In a review for The New York Times, Claudia Rankine wrote that in Revise the Psalm "we get a keen sense of the poet and her fierce commitment to community engagement".
