Biography
John Wesley Horton was born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Northwest Indiana. His poems appear in Poetry Northwest, Golden Handcuffs Review, Cutbank, Notre Dame Review, Pageboy, The Los Angeles Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Fourteen Hills, The Laurel Review, and Willow Springs. He’s also been anthologized in City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry and Alive at the Center: An Anthology of Northwest Poems. His manuscript, A New World Where We Can Stand to Live was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He’s been the recipient of a Washington Artist Trust GAP grant and residency fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He holds a BA from The Evergreen State College and an MFA from the University of Washington. Currently, Johnny teaches poetry at Richard Hugo House and English at Seattle Central Community College.