Jonathan Lewis is the author of Babel On, which won the 2017 L+S Press Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series contest. He is a recipient of a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities fellowship, a two-time finalist for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award, and the DC winner of the Golden Haiku award. His poetry has appeared in a variety of publications, including Hawai’i Review, Icelandic Connection, Beltway Poetry Quarterly and the Washington Post. Lewis lives in Washington, DC, where he is editor of The Federal Poet, a Judge for the DC City-Wide Spelling Bee, and has hosted the BookFest’s live Poets’ Corner@Tunnicliff’s as well as the virtual event last year.