Formerly a project editor for Prentice Hall, a freelance journalist, and a teacher of English and religion, he has done preliminary work on a poetic rendition of Enuma Elish, the world's first recorded creation story, also from the ancient Near Eastern milieu. Jackson's work has appeared in The New York Times, National Catholic Reporter, English Journal, Phi Delta Kappan, Commonwealth, New Jersey Educational Review, Media & Methods, and Ocean County Times Observer. Jackson is the author of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Second Edition (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1997), Gilgamis Destani (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2005), and Gilgamesh: A Myth Revisited (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2001).