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Jonathan Wells

Freelance editor

Current City
New York, New York
Birth City
New York, New York
Genre(s)
Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction
Photo credit: Photo Credit: Elizabeth Beatrice

Biography

Jonathan Wells’s third collection of poems, Debris, was published by Four Way Books in 2021. He is the author of two previous collections of poetry with Four Way Books: Train Dance (2011) and The Man With Many Pens (2015). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, AGNI, Bennington Review and forthcoming from The New Republic. His memoir, The Skinny, was published in Fall, 2021 by Ze Books/Unnamed Press. His novel The Sterns Are Listening will be published in November, 2023.

Published Works

Poetry
Debris (Four Way Books, 2021)
The Man with Many Pens (Four Way Books, 2015)
Train Dance (Four Way Books, 2011)

Fiction
The Sterns Are Listening (Ze/Unnamed, 2023)

Memoir
The Skinny (Ze/Unnamed, 2023)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Loss, Love, Marriage, Narrative, Nature, Parenting.