Editor-in-Chief

Jonathan Penton founded UnlikelyStories.org in 1998. His own poetry chapbooks include Last Chap (Vergin' Press, 2004), Blood and Salsa and Painting Rust (Unlikely Books, 2006), Prosthetic Gods (New Sins Press, 2008), Standards of Sadiddy (Lit Fest Press, 2016), and Backstories (Argotist E-Books, 2017). He lives in New Orleans, where he is currently working on a book of ekphrasis, an opera, and a memoir about being raised a Messianic Jew.
Jonathan Penton handles literary submissions, as well as some multimedia submissions, at jonathan AT unlikelystories DOT org. Please read the guidelines before submitting. You can learn less about him at his Facebook page. Photo by Jenny Rose. Jonathan recommends Keshet.