About the Author

Jonathan Liebson was born in New York and grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. He earned a BA in French Literature and International Politics from Wesleyan University, an MA in Modern Literature from the University of Kent (UK), and an MFA in Fiction from NYU.

His essays, reviews, and fiction have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The American Scholar, Tablet Magazine, Time Out New York, The Texas Observer, Los Angeles Review of Books, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Meridian, and The Georgia Review, among many other journals, and in the anthology Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (Random House). 

Jonathan currently lives in New York and teaches writing, literature, and culture at Eugene Lang College of The New School. He has lived in Paris, France; Socorro, New Mexico; Canterbury, England; Charleston, South Carolina; and Oxford, Ohio; and has taught at the College of Charleston, Miami of Ohio, NYU, and Gotham Writers’ Workshop. His photography has been shown at the Umbrella Arts Gallery in New York City and the New York Center for Photographic Arts, and was featured in his 9/11 memorial essay in The American Scholar (see Publications). His photographs can be viewed at the Photography link.

contact: jonathan.liebson@nyu.edu