Interview with Writer's Digest
Magic and Practicality
Novelist David Jackson Ambrose discusses the initial themes he wanted to explore in his latest novel, A Blind Eye, what the editing process was like, and how his books always surprise him in the end.
David Jackson Ambrose’s debut novel, State of the Nation (2018), was selected as a finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction.
David describes his work as “a focus on marginalized people and the ways identities are shaped by a confluence of the prison industrial complex, the mental health factory, (both of which he refers to as neo-plantations) and police state apparatus as it collides with gender, sexuality, and the construct of race to impose disability and hierarchy as part of the design of American capitalism.”
David’s new novel, A Blind Eye (2021, NineStar Press), explores the gradations of domestic abuse in both parental and same-sex relationships and the opacity of perceptions of race.
He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Africana Studies) and holds an MA from Saint Joseph’s University and an MFA from Temple University.
In this post, Jackson Ambrose discusses the initial themes he wanted to explore in his latest novel, A Blind Eye, what the editing process was like, how his books always surprise him in the end, and more!
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