Jason Mott
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Bio
Jason Mott is the author of two poetry collections: We Call This Thing Between Us Love and “…hide behind me…”. He is the author of four novels: The Returned, The Wonder of All Things, The Crossing, and Hell of a Book. The Returned, Mott’s debut novel, was adapted for television and aired on the ABC network under the title Resurrection. Mott’s fourth novel, Hell of a Book, released in June 2021, was a Jenna Bush Hager “Read With Jenna” Book Club pick, Carnegie Medals For Excellence in Fiction Longlist selection, 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist selection, 2022 Chatauqua Prize Finalist, Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist selection, 2022 Housatonic Book Award winner, 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Prize for Fiction winner, and the winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction.
I am incredibly grateful and honored to be the recipient of this National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. For me, ultimately, this NEA fellowship is the gift of time—the most valuable commodity a life can ever have. The world burns and we try to keep ourselves and those we love from being engulfed in the flames, and all the while time bleeds away. For me, this NEA fellowship will afford me a bit more time to focus on my writing and, hopefully, stumble across a way to say something through words that will make the world a little easier for someone else.