Jonathan Andersen is the author of Augur (Red Dragonfly Press, 2018), which was the recipient of the David Martinson-Meadowhawk Poetry Prize and a finalist for the 2019 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry. Other books include The Burden Note, (Meridian Prize, 2014), an English/Serbo-Croatian chapbook, and Stomp and Sing (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2005). He is the editor of the anthology Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other U.S.A. (Smokestack Books, 2008).
He has been a featured reader throughout the eastern United States, the United Kingdom, and Serbia, including at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, the 49th International Festival of Literature in Belgrade, and the 42nd Smederevo Poetry Autumn. His poems have appeared in print and online publications, including Blue Collar Review, Café Review, Exposition Review, Freshwater, Hanging Loose, Here, New American Writing, Nimrod, North American Review, Paterson Literary Review, The Progressive, Rattle, and Salt, among others.
An educator for 28 years, including 12 years as a high school teacher, Andersen is currently a professor of English at CT State Community College-Quinebaug Valley in Danielson and Willimantic, Connecticut. He and his wife, fellow writer and teacher Denise Abercrombie, live in nearby Storrs. They have two grown sons, Kit and Miles.