Jon Andersen
Jon Andersen was born in 1970 in New London, Connecticut, only a few minutes ahead of his fraternal twin brother Phillip. His mother and father worked nights and weekends to rebuild an old farmhouse in nearby East Lyme that had belonged to his mother’s family for a number of generations, and they moved there in 1972. For many years his father, a Vietnam Veteran, was employed as a shipper and truck driver for a fruit and produce company, while his mother worked as a cook in a small elementary school. His parents encouraged spirited political and philosophical conversations around the dinner table, and at an early age he began to think about both the honors and injustices of hard work in America. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.A. in English and a Concentration in Creative Writing. After working variously as a lumberyard employee, landscape laborer, mountain trail crew member, farmhand, and warehouse worker, he earned secondary English teaching certification from Central Connecticut State University and special education certification from Southern Connecticut State University. Currently, he teaches at Quinebaug Valley Community College, and lives in Storrs, CT. His poetry has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Cafe Review, Connecticut Review, The Progressive and Rattle. Stomp and Sing is his first full-length collection of poetry.
Works by Jon Andersen from Curbstone Press:
Stomp and Sing
