Jonathan Penton

Jonathan Penton founded the online journal Unlikely Stories in 1998 and continues to run it. He has served in editorial, management, and technical roles for numerous arts organizations, including the New Orleans Poetry Festival, Rigorous: a journal by BIPOC, MadHat, Inc., and Big Bridge. His previous books of poems are BACKSTORIES (Argotist Ebooks), Standards of Sadiddy (Lit Fest Press), Painting Rust and Blood and Salsa (Unlikely Books), and Last Chap (Vergin’ Press). He lives in New Orleans with his family. Photo by Leona Strassberg Steiner.