Jonathan Sapers is a fiction writer and essayist who serendipitously splits his time between New York City, Rincon, Puerto Rico and St. Andrews, NB, Canada. He has published more than a dozen short stories, in among other places, Glimmer Train, Confrontation, Construction, Northwest Review, Pank and Raritan. His story “The Physiology of Heartbreak” was nominated for Best of the Net for 2017 and received an “Honorary Mention” in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open, as did his stories “Something is Terribly Wrong” and “The Story of Our Divorce.” “The Last Highway” was selected as a notable story of 2014 by the storySouth Million Writers Award committee. And his story, “Dear Mr. Sugarman” was a semi-finalist in Ruminate’s Annual William Van Dyke Short Story Contest.
 

After training as a reporter at the Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama and graduating from Columbia Journalism School, Sapers began his freelancing career writing short pieces on public art for The New Yorker. He then reported on a wide range of other subjects, including driving around trucks for The New York Times and the Million Man March for U.S. News & World Report before settling in to cover developments in education for Teachers College’s Alumni Magazine TC Today, Scholastic Administrator and ultimately the Hechinger Report. His two Hechinger pieces also appeared in The Nation and PBS Newshour online. His essays have appeared in Newsday, Smithsonian, Family Fun and Maine Boats Homes & Harbors. 

 
He studied with Mary Robison at Harvard, Judith Crist and Maureen Howard at Columbia and more recently Elizabeth Gaffney and Ann Elliott at A Public Space and Dave King and Elizabeth Gaffney at the 24-Hour Room where he is a member of the Round Table.

 

When not writing, Sapers likes to Box, surf, sail, read, photograph street art, assemble playlists

and make a mean martini.