Jon Pineda Biography
Jon Pineda (born Charleston, South Carolina) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist.
Jon Pineda was raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. He graduated from James Madison University and Virginia Commonwealth University.
His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Literary Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Many Mountains Moving, Asian Pacific American Journal, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere.
He is the author of the novel Apology, winner of the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize. His memoir Sleep in Me was a 2010 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. His poetry collections include The Translator's Diary, winner of the 2007 Green Prize for Poetry from New Issues Press, and Birthmark, first place winner in the 2003 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards.
He currently teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte and is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Mary Washington.
On the tip of a hill, the silhouette is of something not of this world,
the body silent in the birth of another shadow, swelling still
among stars & veins. The sun dropping below the mountains left
...
Between the train's long slide and the sun
ricocheting off the sea, anyone
would have fallen silent in those words,
the language of age in her face, the birds
...
A basket of apples brown in our kitchen,
their warm scent is the scent of ripening,
and my sister, entering the room quietly,
takes a seat at the table, takes up the task
...
We thought nothing of it, he says,
though some came so close to where we slept.
I try to see him as a boy,
back in the Philippines, waking
...
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