Jon D. Lee is an award-winning educator, folklorist, poet, and writer. He serves as a poetry editor for Salamander, and has been a national reviewer for poetry and fiction for the National YoungArts Foundation, and a contributor to NPR’s Cognoscenti and CommonHealth blogs. In 2015 he was a Visiting Professor at Utah State University, and is currently an Instructor at Suffolk University. Jon lives in Boston with his wife and children.