{{Short description|Canadian journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Marni Jackson | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = journalist and writer }} '''Marni Jackson''' is a Canadian journalist.<ref>"Being in the thick of motherhood not an easy deal". ''Edmonton Journal'', April 1, 1992.</ref> 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,<ref>"Hamilton writer wins Leacock humor award". ''Toronto Star'', May 4, 1993.</ref> and her 2002 non-fiction book ''Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign'', which was shortlisted for the Pearson Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.<ref>"Writers' Trust doles out prizes". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 7, 2003.</ref>
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),<ref>"Marni Jackson eyes pros and cons of so-called empty nest". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', September 25, 2010.</ref> 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.<ref>"Writer to co-host TVOntario's Imprint". ''Toronto Star'', September 29, 1995.</ref>
Jackson is married to journalist and filmmaker Brian D. Johnson,<ref name=boogie>"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.</ref> and was credited as a co-writer of his 2015 documentary film ''Al Purdy Was Here''.<ref>"Hearing Al Purdy". ''Border Crossings'', Vol. 34, Iss. 4, (Dec 2015-Feb 2016).</ref>
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.<ref name=Macleans2014-12-05/> Jackson felt her complaints over Bhabra's harassment were not taken seriously. Both she and Bhabra were replaced for the second season. Bhabra killed himself three years later.<ref name=Globe2000-06-03/><ref name=LastExit/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Macleans2014-12-05> {{cite news | url = https://www.macleans.ca/society/behind-the-camera-author-marni-jacksons-story-of-backstage-harassment/ | title = Author Marni Jackson's story of backstage harassment | work = Maclean's magazine | author = Marni Jackson | date = 2014-12-05 | page = | location = | accessdate = 2018-05-30 | quote = 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. }} </ref>
<ref name=LastExit> {{cite news | url = http://members.shaw.ca/curtis.cathy/lastexit.htm | title = Last Exit | work = Saturday Night | author = Curtis Gillespie | date = | page = | location = | archiveurl = https://archive.today/20040214125144/http://members.shaw.ca/curtis.cathy/lastexit.htm | archivedate = 2004-02-14 | accessdate = 2018-05-30 | url-status = live | quote = }} </ref>
<ref name=Globe2000-06-03> {{cite news | url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-unseen-faces-of-hs-bhabra/article768098/ | title = The unseen faces of H.S. Bhabra | work = The Globe and Mail | author = Gayle MacDonald, Alexandra Gill | date = 2000-06-03 | page = | location = Toronto | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180530235531/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-unseen-faces-of-hs-bhabra/article768098/ | archivedate = 2018-05-30 | url-status = live | quote = {{'}}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.{{'}} }} </ref> }}
==External links== *{{official website|http://marnijackson.com/}}
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