Jonathan Penton founded Unlikely Stories in 1998. He is the Technical Director for the New Orleans Poetry Festival, and has served in editorial, management, and technical roles for numerous arts organizations, including Rigorous: a journal by BIPOC, MadHat, Inc., and Big Bridge. His own books of poems are A Limited Number of Miracles (Lavender Ink, 2025), BACKSTORIES (Argotist Ebooks, 2017), Standards of Sadiddy (Lit Fest Press, 2016), Prosthetic Gods (New Sins Press/Winged City Chapbooks, 2008), Painting Rust and Blood and Salsa (Unlikely Books, 2005), and Last Chap (Vergin’ Press, 2004). He lives in New Orleans with his family.
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 Leona Strassberg Steiner. Jonathan recommends Keshet.
