Joshilyn Jackson was born in the Deep South and raised by a tribe of wild fundamentalists who taught her to be virtuous and upright. Unfortunately, it didn't take, and Ms. Jackson dropped out of college to pursue a career as an actor. She worked in regional repertoire and traveled the southern third of the country with a dinner theatre troupe, but after a few years she realized that she preferred writing plays to acting in them.

She returned to school and graduated with honors from Georgia State University with a degree in English. While living in Atlanta, she worked as both a writer and actor with The Players, a children's theatre group. She moved to Chicago and managed to recover from a near-terminal case of culture shock just in time to earn her MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ms. Jackson taught English at UIC, trying to explain the function of the gerund and why Moby Dick is a great book to crowds of hung-over 18 year olds. In her first year of teaching, she won the Student's Choice Award for Best English Instructor.

After graduate school she ran for warmer climes, returning to her hometown and marrying the boy next door. She currently lives just outside of Atlanta with her husband, their two children, and a twenty-three-pound, one-eyed Maine Coon cat named Franz Schubert.

Her children's play, Another Snow White, was produced by The Players in Atlanta. Her play Screwing Lazarus was produced by Pawme Productions at The Basement Theatre in Chicago, and played for sold out crowds for the entire run. She worked as a staff writer and then an editor for the Postfeminist Playground, a website that racked up a half a million hits by over a hundred thousand unique users each month.

She has worked as a writing consultant, a ghost writer, and sells humorous essays as web content to companies like American Greetings and SocialNet. Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines including TriQuarterly and Calyx, and her short story SixLips appeared in ChickLit II, FC2's anthology of up and coming female writers.

She is currently at work on her next novel, Between, Georgia, the story of a woman connected to two warring families, trying to find her place in both of them while their generations-old feud rages through their small town