Marni Jackson

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]

Marni Jackson
NationalityCanada
Occupationjournalist and writer

A writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Maclean's, Saturday Night and The Walrus, she 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]

She 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. "Being in the thick of motherhood not an easy deal". Edmonton Journal, April 1, 1992.
  2. "Hamilton writer wins Leacock humor award". Toronto Star, May 4, 1993.
  3. "Writers' Trust doles out prizes". The Globe and Mail, March 7, 2003.
  4. "Marni Jackson eyes pros and cons of so-called empty nest". Winnipeg Free Press, September 25, 2010.
  5. "Writer to co-host TVOntario's Imprint". Toronto Star, September 29, 1995.
  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. "Hearing Al Purdy". Border Crossings, Vol. 34, Iss. 4, (Dec 2015-Feb 2016).
  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. 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. Curtis Gillespie. "Last Exit". Saturday Night. Archived from the original on 2004-02-14. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
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