Jon Pineda is the author of six books. His most recent is the novel Let's No One Get Hurt (FSG).
Other books include the novel Apology, the memoir Sleep in Me, and the poetry collections Little Anodynes, The Translator's Diary, and Birthmark.
His work has twice received the Library of Virginia Literary Award (2019 & 2016), the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize, a 2010 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, the 2007 Green Rose Prize for Poetry, and the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition.
A core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, Jon has been a member of the teaching faculty at Kundiman and currently teaches creative writing at William & Mary, where he is an associate professor of English.
Other books include the novel Apology, the memoir Sleep in Me, and the poetry collections Little Anodynes, The Translator's Diary, and Birthmark.
His work has twice received the Library of Virginia Literary Award (2019 & 2016), the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize, a 2010 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, the 2007 Green Rose Prize for Poetry, and the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition.
A core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, Jon has been a member of the teaching faculty at Kundiman and currently teaches creative writing at William & Mary, where he is an associate professor of English.