"Jeremy Jackson can’t recall a time when he didn’t want to be a writer. 'It was something I always sort of had in my mind,' says Jackson, a 1997 graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 'By high school it was something I was pretty interested in and started pursuing pretty strongly.'"

In this University of Iowa 'Be Remarkable' feature, Jeremy Jackson traces his present-day publishing success back to the early days of his writing career, from his journalistic beginnings at a high school newspaper to his studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.