Jon Woodson is a creative writer and independent scholar living in Providence, RI. He published Summer Games, a novel in 2016 and Endowed, a comic novel in 2012. He is the author of five critical studies: The Esoteric Mission of Zora Neale Hurston (2016), Oragean Modernism: a lost literary movement, 1924-1953 (2013); Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s (2011); To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance (1999); and A Study of Catch-22: Going Around Twice (2001).

His essays have appeared in Flashpoint, Obsidian II, African American Review, The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, The Harlem Renaissance: a Gale Critical Companion, and The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing. Woodson has taught on the faculties of Howard University, Lincoln University, George Mason University, Towson University, the University of Rhode Island, and as a Fulbright lecturer in American studies at two Hungarian universities, ELTE and the University of Pecs. He is the author of four poetry chapbooks.