Jonathan Greene

Poet, publisher, book designer and prolific and throughful reader, JONATHAN GREENE is the author of over 30 books and hundreds of poems that have appeared in scores of magazines and anthologies in a writing career that now spans five decades. He was born in New York City in 1943, and lived in San Francisco twice in the 1960s. He graduated from Bard College in 1965, where he studied American Literature with Ralph Ellison. He has also studied poetry with Robert Lowell and folklore with Alan Dundes.

Since 1965 Greene has edited and published over 50 books under the Gnomon Press imprint, including works by Robert Duncan, Wendell Berry, Jonathan Williams, James Still, Gurney Norman and many others. He now does free-lance book design and has won a number of awards in the field.

Greene moved to Kentucky in 1966, where he lives on a farm on the Kentucky River outside of Frankfort with his wife, Dobree Adams, a noted weaver and photographer.