A visual artist and writer, Jon was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and is now based in Maryland.
After earning his undergraduate degrees (BA-English & BA-History) from the University of North Texas, Jon was the recipient of a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award, a fellowship worth $150,000 for graduate studies in the Arts. With this award, he obtained his MFA from New York University in 2016 and has since worked in publishing, education, and federal policy writing.
His poetry and prose have been featured in journals such Tar River Poetry, Flapperhouse, and Monkey Bicycle, and his screenplays have won or placed in various competitions, such as the Dallas International Film Festival Screenwriting Contest, the Los Angeles International Screenwriting Competition, and the Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship.
A longtime doodler and small-scale painter, Jon has recently turned his attention to building and painting large canvases, often abstract and loud with color. The most recent series of these paintings are featured on the portfolio page.
When not painting, Jon enjoys time in the sun, the twisty-turny nature of crime movies, and cold coffees year round. He listens to Beethoven at the same volume he listens to Funkadelic and maintains a healthy obsession with the NBA.
