Marni_Jackson

Marni Jackson

Marni Jackson

Canadian journalist

Marni Jackson is a Canadian journalist.[1] She is most noted for her 1992 memoir The Mother Zone, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1993,[2] and her 2002 non-fiction book Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign, which was shortlisted for the Pearson Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[3]

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A writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Maclean's, Saturday Night and The Walrus, Jackson has also published the non-fiction book Home Free: The Myth of the Empty Nest (2010),[4] and the short story collection Don't I Know You? (2016). She was a cohost of TVOntario's literary talk show Imprint from 1995 to 1997.[5]

Jackson is married to journalist and filmmaker Brian D. Johnson,[6] and was credited as a co-writer of his 2015 documentary film Al Purdy Was Here.[7]

In December 2014 Maclean's magazine published Jackson's account of harassment she experienced from her co-host, Hargurchet Singh Bhabra. Jackson and Bhabra had been co-hosts of a show on books, entitled Imprint, during its first season, in 1994.[8] Jackson felt her complaints over Bhabra's harassment were not taken seriously. Both she and Bhabra were replaced for the second season. Bhabra committed suicide three years later.[9][10]

References

  1. [1]
    "Being in the thick of motherhood not an easy deal". Edmonton Journal, April 1, 1992.
  2. [2]
    "Hamilton writer wins Leacock humor award". Toronto Star, May 4, 1993.
  3. [3]
    "Writers' Trust doles out prizes". The Globe and Mail, March 7, 2003.
  4. [4]
    "Marni Jackson eyes pros and cons of so-called empty nest". Winnipeg Free Press, September 25, 2010.
  5. [5]
    "Writer to co-host TVOntario's Imprint". Toronto Star, September 29, 1995.
  6. [6]
    "Boogie nights: For all its star worship, Brian Johnson's take on the Toronto International Film Festival's 25-year run amounts to two decent books in one." Toronto Star, September 3, 2000.
  7. [7]
    "Hearing Al Purdy". Border Crossings, Vol. 34, Iss. 4, (Dec 2015-Feb 2016).
  8. [8]
    Marni Jackson (2014-12-05). "Author Marni Jackson's story of backstage harassment". Maclean's magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-30. Then one day when everyone else had left the office he said, 'You know Marni, I'm very grateful there's a wall between our offices, because otherwise I should find it difficult not to throw myself at you.' (Yes, he really did talk like that.) I felt off-balance. This was not a compliment, I realized, it was more like a threat. I told him that his remarks were inappropriate and asked him to stop.
  9. [9]
    Gayle MacDonald, Alexandra Gill (2000-06-03). "The unseen faces of H.S. Bhabra". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on 2018-05-30. 'He tells her everything was a lie,' said a friend who read Bhabra's letter. 'He tells her he was not a legal immigrant. That there is no book [the writer was working on a trilogy with Doubleday] no publisher, no money. That he failed at everything and everybody. And that he's sorry, but he has to go.'
  10. [10]
    Curtis Gillespie. "Last Exit". Saturday Night. Archived from the original on 2004-02-14. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
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