Brendan Jones is the author of the novel The Alaskan Laundry. A recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and fellowships from MacDowell, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Ragdale, he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He has had work published in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Narrative Magazine, Popular Woodworking, The Huffington Post, and recorded commentaries for NPR.
Raised in Philadelphia, he took a Greyhound bus west at the age of 19, ending up in Sitka, AK. He graduated from Oxford University, where he boxed for the Blues team, then returned to Alaska to commercial fish. He was a general contractor for seven years in Philadelphia, before heading back to Sitka, where he now lives, commercial fishing and renovating a WWII tugboat.
At MAcDowell in 2005, he completed the manuscript of his novel "The Alaskan Laundry."
Portrait by James Poulson
