Kosoko Jackson

Kosoko Jackson is an American author of young-adult fiction who worked as a sensitivity reader for major publishers before building his own career as a novelist. His young-adult novels combine contemporary and historical settings with thriller and speculative elements, including Yesterday Is History, Survive the Dome, The Forest Demands Its Due, and The Macabre. Jackson's fiction typically centers Black and LGBTQ+ teenage protagonists facing high-stakes situations, pairing social realism with genre conceits drawn from horror, thriller, and speculative fiction. He is also known within the young-adult publishing world as a vocal commentator on questions of representation and authenticity in the genre, having worked as an editorial and sensitivity reader before his own fiction career took off.