m.k. jackson

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M.K. Jackson is a Los Angeles–based writer, humorist, and self-described existential fatalist who has authored countless resumes, several essays, and numerous unfinished books, including Baby’s First Exorcism, Testicular Manslaughter, and 100 Years of Mold and Mildew.

Blending sharp satire, profane humor, and unflinching emotion, Jackson writes about mortality, grief, ambition, self-delusion, futility, and failure through the peepholes of analogy, nostalgia, and absurdity. His work is best described as low-expectations systems thinking with supporting evidence.

After surviving two brain surgeries, divorce, a layoff, financial collapse, and the death of his mother all in quick succession, Jackson rejected the self-help industrial complex’s exhausting lie that every human being is destined for greatness—if they work hard enough at it. He turned that realization into his first book, Aim for the Middle: How to Achieve Happiness, Success, and Love Through the Unbridled Power of Mediocrity—a satirical, ribald argument that success, happiness, and love are not reserved for extraordinary people, but are available to anyone willing to embrace their ordinary, imperfect, and decidedly mediocre abilities.

Jackson holds a Bachelor of Arts (can’t get a job with it, can’t teach with it), a Master of Fine Arts (can’t get a job with it but can teach with it), and a Doctor of Divinity (can’t teach with it, can’t get a job with it, but can officiate weddings with it).

He currently resigns in Los Angeles, California with his childhood friend, a large anthropomorphic white rabbit.

He is available for weddings.

(Jackson, not the rabbit.)

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M.K. Jackson is a Los Angeles–based writer, humorist, and self-described existential fatalist.

Blending sharp satire, profane humor, and unflinching emotion, he writes about mortality, grief, ambition, self-delusion, futility, and failure, usually through the peepholes of analogy, nostalgia, and absurdity.

Jackson has authored countless resumes, several essays, and the book Aim for the Middle: How to Achieve Happiness, Success, and Love Through the Unbridled Power of Mediocrity, a ribald takedown of the self-help industrial complex

The only known photograph of the author (seen on the right) taken back when it all started to go wrong.
Original 1970s Polaroid black and white snapshot.