Jon Pineda

Jon Pineda was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. The recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Pineda is the author of the novel Apology, winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the memoir Sleep in Me, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a top memoir of 2010 by Library Journal. His poetry collections are The Translator s Diary, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry &...See more

Jon Pineda was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. The recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Pineda is the author of the novel Apology, winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the memoir Sleep in Me, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a top memoir of 2010 by Library Journal. His poetry collections are The Translator s Diary, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose, and Birthmark, selected by Ralph Burns as winner of the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series open competition. An earlier version of Little Anodynes was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Pineda See less