Jack Amos Holloway is a writer, music producer, film director, activist, minister, and dog-sitter based in Brooklyn, NY. They are the author of Hands of Doom: The Apocalyptic Imagination of Black Sabbath, and Founder and Creative Director of Morbid Instinct. Jack plays in Psychic Terror, Mauve Toad, and The Heavens, and has over a hundred original songs to their name. They wrote and directed a short film called The Prisoner, and they promote and organize for prison abolition under the name Act for Abolition.
Jack is Assistant Minister at Old First Reformed Church in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where they host Despair Sanctuary, a nighttime drone music vigil that provides space for anyone experiencing despair to hold negative emotions in community. You can read about Despair Sanctuary in Harper's Bazaar.
Jack received a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in 2018, and a Bachelor of Arts from Regent University in 2013. At UTS, they studied with such legendary professors as theologian James Cone, philosopher Cornel West, and Old Testament scholar Phyllis Trible.
Born in Portland, OR, Jack spent most of their childhood in the area southeast of Seattle, WA, but has also lived in southern California, southwest Florida, and Richmond, VA. They married their partner, Debbie, in 2013.
Jack regularly protests, marches, and organizes. He volunteered as a researcher for the activist group Black Womxn's March, as a music teacher for the youth development services center The Door, and as a fundraiser for both the Prison Library Support Network and a local political campaign for NYC Councilwoman Sandy Nurse.
Jack walks dogs in West Village, and has many dog pals.
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