Jonathan Wolf is a writer, musician, and educator from Ames, Iowa—currently an MFA candidate at the University of Florida, where he teaches undergraduate workshops in poetry and fiction and serves as assistant editor of Subtropics.
In 2025, he won the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest in Poetry and was runner-up for the Boulevard Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers. As an undergraduate, he received the Mary Kinzie Prize in Poetry and the Herder Prize in Philosophy from Northwestern University, where he earned his BA with majors in Philosophy, Violin Performance, and American Studies. He has worked as a darkroom tech, a writing tutor, a research assistant for NU’s Visual Cognition Laboratory, a bicycle mechanic, a music instructor, a server, a Home Goods cash-office clerk, an undergraduate fellow with NU’s Center for Civic Engagement, and a blog-writer for an environmental justice nonprofit. He loves to make music and photographs.
