Jonny Diamond is a writer and editor who splits his time between New York City and the Hudson Valley. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Longreads, The Missouri Review, Geist, Hobart Pulp, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a book-length object history of the axe for W.W. Norton, part investigation of its symbolism in America’s westward expansion, part interrogation of contemporary tropes of masculinity and wilderness.

He has an eleven-year-old son named Lucian, and is the editor-in-chief of LitHub.com. You can follow him @JonnyDiamond.