Jason C. Anthony

Jason C. Anthony is the 2014 Literary Fellow for the state of Maine. Other recent honors include a 2014 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Nonfiction Fellowship and a 2015 MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He was born in Maine in 1967, attended school and college in Massachusetts, and earned his MA in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire. Soon thereafter, he fled the warm world for Antarctica, where he worked in the United States Antarctic Program for eight austral summers as a Waste Management Specialist, Fuels Operator, Cargo Handler, Skiway Groomer, and Camp Supervisor. He filled his Antarctic notebooks with the raw material for lyric essays, essays, and articles, some twenty three of which have been published since he last left the ice in 2004. One Antarctic essay was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2007, and another was a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2006. His essay Hoosh, published in the literary food journal Alimentum, became the origin for his first book, Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine.

Hoosh won a 2012 Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Award, a 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award (Travel), a Silver Medal in the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards (Creative Nonfiction), and was a finalist for a 2013 Maine Literary Award (Nonfiction).

For more on Hoosh, check out www.albedoimages.com/blog. Many of his earlier Antarctic writings are available at www.AlbedoImages.com. Jason Anthony now lives in Maine again with his wife, the singer-songwriter Heather Hardy.