Jonny Diamond is a writer and editor who splits his time between New York City and the Hudson Valley. 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. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Longreads, Dirt, The Missouri Review, Geist, Hobart Pulp, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.

Diamond lives in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains with his wife Sarah and his children Lucian, Emrys, and Percy. He is the editor-in-chief of LitHub.com, and co-editor, with Su Hwang, of American Occupation: Dispatches From Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE. You can follow him @diamond-jonny on Instagram.