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Jon Alston [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Rexburg, ID
Idaho US
Email: 
jalston11@hotmail.com
Bio: 

Life is complicated, at best. It's why we do anything in the arts. I write because I don't understand the world in the least, and through words I try to explore what it means to live.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, John Green, Roald Dahl.
Born in: 
Sacramento, CA
California
Raised in: 
Loomis, CA
California
Website: 
https://www.fromsac.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Honorable Mention, Tenth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition sponsored by The Binnacle at The University of Maine at Machias, 2013 Designer, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission public arts grant, June 2013 Photographer, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission public arts grant, February 2012 1st place (Poetry), Bazzanella Literary Award, 2012 1st place (Poetry), Bazzanella Literary Award, 2011 1st place (Fiction), Bazzanella Literary Award, 2009

What I'm reading now: 
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by William Morris
The Merry Muses of Caledonia by Robert Burns
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Naturalists/Environmentalists
Teachers
Teenagers
Women
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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/jon_alston [2] https://www.fromsac.com