Jonathan Bessette has many hobbies which inform his writing, including astrology, gaming, gardening, and anarchism. He lives in the unceded and traditional and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tseil-Waututh), and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nations, so-called Vancouver Canada. He attended SFU’s The Writer’s Workshop with a focus on poetry, and more recently graduated from The University of Guelph’s MFA in creative writing with a focus on fiction. He’s been attending creative writing classes since high school, and loves the format and emergent relationship of the workshop and hopes to one day do a dissertation on the history of the creative writing workshop and its function as “applied English.”
He’s published poetry in The Capilano Review and CV2, nonfiction in Adbusters and Quill and Quire, and fiction in The Antigonish Review, and if it didn’t seem like he wasn’t confused enough already, he’s trying to publish Science Fiction too. He can’t wait to talk all night about everything imaginable, remaking the world before dawn.
Jonathan has been a founding member and editor for two literary magazines—The NPODW (no longer active) and HELD Magazine.