Jona Colson is the author of Said Through Glass (WWPH, 2018), winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. He received his BA in English and Spanish from Goucher College, a Master of Arts in Linguistics from George Mason University, and a Master of Fine Arts from American University. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Massachusetts Review. He is an associate professor of ESL at Montgomery College in Maryland and lives in Washington, DC.