Jon Pineda

Jon Pineda is the author of the novel Apology , winner of the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize. His memoir Sleep in Me was a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" 2010 Holiday Selection and a Library Journal "Best Books of 2010" selection. He is the author of the poetry collections The Translator's Diary, winner of the Green Rose Prize, and Birthmark, winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition. A new poetry collection Little Anodynes was selected by Nikky Finney, winner of the National Book Award, for the Palmetto Poetry Series. A core faculty member in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, he lives in Virginia with his family and is on faculty at the University of Mary Washington.