Mitchell S JacksonMitchell S. Jackson is the author of Survival Math. His debut novel The Residue Years won the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence, and it was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize,the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It earned high praise from the New York Times, Paris Review, and London Times. His honors include fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, TED, the Lannan Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Center for Fiction. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Salon, and Tin House, among other publications. He serves on the faculty at New York University and Columbia University. Read More Read Less