Tiffany D. Jackson

Tiffany D. Jackson is an American author and filmmaker born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn Heights. She studied film at Howard University and earned a master's in media studies from The New School, then spent over a decade working in television and film before writing full time.

Her young adult novels include Allegedly, Monday's Not Coming, Let Me Hear a Rhyme, Grown, White Smoke, The Weight of Blood and The Scammer, and she has also written the middle-grade mystery Blood in the Water and the picture book Santa in the City.

She contributed to the Blackout, Whiteout and Breakout story collections and co-wrote The Awakening of Malcolm X with Ilyasah Shabazz. She received the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New Talent recognition and the 2025 Margaret A. Edwards Award.