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 completed SFU’s The Writer’s Workshop with a focus in poetry, graduated from the University of Guelph’s MFA in creative writing with a focus on fiction, and was a founding member and editor of HELD Magazine.
He’s been attending creative writing classes since high school, and loves the format and emergent relationship of the workshop, and how writing is a community. He can’t wait to talk all night about everything imaginable, remaking the world before dawn.
He’s published poetry in The Capilano Review, CV2, and the Ampersand Review; nonfiction in Adbusters and Quill and Quire; and fiction in The Antigonish Review, Temz Review, and Carte Blanche