Bio

Jason Mott lives in Bolton, North Carolina. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction has appeared in various journals such as Prick of the Spindle, The Thomas Wolfe Review, The Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets, Measure and Chautauqua.  He was recently nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize award.

He is currently seeking a publisher for his superhero-laden poetry collection …hide behind me… as well as scouring comic cons in search of an artist for a recently completed graphic novel script.

His inspirations often come from mythology, folklore, exploration of the sonnet form and, most often, comic books. His book of poems We Call This Thing Between Us Love was a finalist in the 2009 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Contest and is slated for publication this December.  It can be purchased here: www.mainstreetrag.com

Early readers have had this to say about the book:

“We humans may have difficulty forging the romantic and familial intimacy we so desperately desire, but these poems sure don’t. They create an intense connection between poet and reader that counteracts the weakness, fear, resentment and loneliness that undermine our failed relationships. Formally varied, but singular in their conversational music, Mott’s poems reflect the richness and range of his emotional life; like the redbird in “Imagery,” they sing the aria of that universe trapped inside. And they sing beautifully.“

–Mark Cox
author of Smolder, Natural Causes,
and Thirty-Seven Years From The Stone

“Jason Mott’s We Call This Thing Between Us Love is a savvy examination of the multitude of ways we try to resolve loneliness. His collection provides us with one man’s internalization of longing-rich with the guises of what is taken away, and what is ultimately given. As a result, we are left like Narcissus, gazing into our own eyes.“

–Lavonne J. Adams
Author of Through the Glorieta Pass and
In the Shadow of the Mountain

“Jason Mott has written a book of poems like no other–a book that reveals love in all of its guises-brutal and tender, mournful and celebratory, addictive and restorative. Deftly moving back and forth from raw, personal poems to imaginative, insightful poems that see through the eyes of others-lovers, family, and in one case, even The Big Bad Wolf–these poems offer us the human heart in all of its beauty and ugliness. And more importantly, Jason Mott gives better words to express what we so desperately and feebly call love.“

–Daniel Nathan Terry
Author of Capturing the Dead