JASON JOBIN completed an MFA in writing at the University of Victoria. His nonfiction has been longlisted for the CBC prize, been published in Cleaver Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and The Sun Magazine. His stories have won a National Magazine Award and featured in the 2018 and 2019 Writers Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize anthology. He was a finalist for American Short Fiction’s Halifax Ranch Prize in 2019, and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize in 2020. Previously, he’s won The Malahat Review’s Jack Hodgins Founders’ and Far Horizons awards for fiction. He lives and writes in Victoria. His debut memoir, The Wild Mandrake, came out with Dundurn Press in fall 2023.

Jason is represented by Akin Akinwumi at Willenfield Literary Agency.