About the Author

You can reach Jason by e-mail at writerjason@gmail.com

Represented by Trinity McFadden at The Bindery Agency

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“Sing,” featured on WORLD Channel’s Stories from the Stage is the most-viewed in the show’s history, with more than 2.5 million views on Facebook alone.

He’s received additional support for his work from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where he won a Nonfiction Contributor Award and worked with Melissa Febos on War Boys. He’s been a resident at Ucross, Monson Arts, The Mount (Edith Wharton’s home), and Ragdale, amongst others, and a Fellow or writer at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Key West Literary Seminar, and Tin House.

A recovering attorney, Jason worked for thirteen years as a disability attorney, first at the Disability Law Center in Boston, before opening his private practice, Prokowiew Law, in 2011. In 2024 Jason closed Prokowiew Law in order to focus full-time on his writing. While he misses his clients, he doesn’t miss court one bit.

Jason splits his time between Connecticut and Massachusetts where he lives with his husband Dave and their greyhound Champ. In his spare time, he prizes his friendships, the writing community, dancing (mostly to 80’s and 90’s music), and singing (a lot of George Michael).

Jason Prokowiew won the Aurora Polaris Award in Creative Nonfiction from Trio House Press, the PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History, and a Fulbright Scholar Award for his debut memoir War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir. Jason’s writing has appeared in Salon, The Guardian, The North American Review, Cognoscenti, Brevity, and in Roxane Gay’s Emerging Writer Series “The Audacity.” His piece