Jonathan Wei  is an artist working in performance, writing, and visual media whose focus, for more than three decades, has been the personal and societal impact of war and dislocation. He is founder and Artistic Director of The Telling Project. His work has been staged at Lincoln Center, the Guthrie Theater, and the Library of Congress, and published in the Village Voice, Iowa Review, Prism International, Nimrod International, and Glimmer Train, among others. He is a 2019 Interchange Arts Fellow, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter prize for fiction from Nimrod International Magazine, winner of the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, Congressional Commendation recipient, and has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. Jonathan lives with his family in Austin, TX.