Sandra Jackson-Opoku is an award-wining poet, journalist, and storyist who writes frequently on culture and travel in the African Diaspora. The River Where Blood Is Born, her first novel, won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for Fiction; her work has also earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines--General Electric Fiction Award for Younger Writers, and a Ragdale Foundation US-Africa Writers Fellowship, among other honors. 

The River Where Blood Is Born was conceived following her first trip to Africa in 1975 and written over the next twenty-one years. She is completing a second novel for adults as well as a children's book. 

Sandra Jackson-Opoku has taught literature and creative writing at Chicago State University and the fiction department of Columbia College. She also works as a freelance journalist, a travel columnist, and a television script writer. She lives in Chicago with her two children, Kimathi and Adjoa.

Books by Sandra Jackson-Opoku

The River Where the Blood is Born

by Sandra Jackson-Opoku