Jonathan Shipley
The last (mistake) of six children, Jonathan Shipley grew up in Olympia eating Bisquick straight from the box while reading the scintillating short stories of Jack London and Edgar Allan Poe before his mother starting asking angrily around the house, “Hey! Where’s the Bisquick?” Since then, he’s used Bisquick to make muffins, pancakes and coffee cakes all the while becoming engrossed in all things wordy (geeky).
He contributes feature stories, articles and our monthly Fast Fact column to City Arts magazine. He’s also writes the BOOK JUNKIE column on the CAB.
He’s written for various other publications including the LA Times, Boston Globe, Lexus magazine, and welding-themed haiku poetry for Welding and Cutting magazine. Seriously. It’s a real magazine. Google it.
He collects first editions (his favorite authors he’s collected includes John Steinbeck, T.C. Boyle, and Peter Matthiessen), reads voraciously, haunts bookstores, frequents libraries, writes short stories, essays, humorous bits, poetry, plays, novels, TV pilots that will never air and letters to corporations in hopes they’ll give him free stuff. With his extra time, he writes and reads even more than previously mentioned in this bio, and bakes with Bisquick.
