Raven Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Jackson’s work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. Recently nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, her debut narrative film, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, made in partnership with Tender, PASTEL, and A24, world-premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and was named one of the top ten movies of the year by The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and RogerEbert.com. 

A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a featured artist on Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, she has served as a Story Editor for HBO's adaptation of Sula, based on Toni Morrison's novel, and co-wrote an episode of the Apple TV+ Series, Surface. An inaugural Black Film Project Fellow at Harvard University, she has been a Film Independent Amplifier Fellow, a Sundance Momentum Fellow, a Rideback Rise Resident, and a ReFrame Rise Fellow. Stories From a Place Where All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, the companion book for her debut feature, is currently out from A24. Her photography can be found in the book, as well as in BOMB Magazine. She is a Cave Canem fellow and holds MFAs from New York University's Graduate Film Program and the New School's Writing Program. Jackson’s chapbook of poetry, little violences, is available from CutBank Literary Magazine.