Jonathan Jacob Moore, or Jon Jon, is a Detroit-born scholar and writer. He is a 2017 National College Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) Best Poet and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at University Of California, Berkeley, where he is a Berkeley Fellow. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in BOAAT, DREGINALD, DRØME, Foglifter, The James Franco Review, RaceBaitR, and Vinyl among others. 

Jon Jon is Managing Editor at Qui Parle, Fellowship Director at Winter Tangerine, and Book Reviewer for the Shade Journal. 

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Awards, Fellowships, residencies 

2019

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SHOW US YOUR SPINES September Resident

James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library

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First Place

2019 Berkeley Graduate Fellows Video Contest

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2018

Finalist

Rustbelt Poetry Slam, Detroit, MI

Finalist

FEMS Poetry Slam, Boston, MA

2017

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Ted Shapiro Memorial Award for Best Senior Honors Thesis |

Highest Thesis Honors

Tufts University American Studies Program

Honos Civicus 

Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University

Pride on the Hill Award

Tufts University LGBT Alumni Association 

Best Poet | Best Poem | Best Persona Poem 

ACUI College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI), Chicago, IL

2016

President's Fund Grantee

Anthony Monaco, President of Tufts University

2015

Gerald Gill Research Fellow | Research Fellow

Center for the Study of Race & Democracy at Tufts University and Harvard Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research 

2014

Top 100 Black LGBTQ Leaders-To-Watch

National Black Justice Coalition 

2013

Gates Millennium Scholar

Horatio Alger National Scholar

selected works

2020

VIDEO: Button Poetry | "Zumbi"

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2019

REVIEW: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment | A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. By Kathryn Yusoff

Contrapunktal

featured in Foglifter Journal, Vol. 4 Issue 2

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flora & fauna

featured in BOAAT and Propter Nos

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2018

RaceBaitR | Carried by Corpses: 'This is America' or The Ingenuity of Lynching in 10 Parts

REVIEW: the Shade Journal | Textual Teleportation in Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "M Archive: After the End of the World"

DRØME | It’s (Been) the End: A Repudiation of Trumpocalypticism Ending in Affirmation

2017

REVIEW: The Poetry Project October/November Newsletter

"Body Text" by Sean D. Henry Smith

the Shade Journal | And Other Hoaxes

2016

INTERVIEW: The Ploughsares Blog at Emerson College (John Rufo) | “frank ocean and all black things that disappear on their own”: A Conversation with Jonathan Jacob Moore

The James Franco Review | Issue 8 

Vinyl Poetry | for Prince & scooby-doo enters the diary room

the Shade Journal | Issue 1

Black Napkin Press | Vol 1 Issue 3 

Winter Tangerine | Sing That Like Dovesong Anthology

2015

Tufts Observer | Speaking Back to Death in Black Breath

education | scholarship 

Currently

Ph.D. African-American Studies and African Diaspora Studies (May 2023)

University of California, Berkeley 

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Spring 2017

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B.A. American Studies & Africana Studies (2013-2017)

Tufts University, Medford, MA

Senior Honors Thesis: Notes on Speculating the Black Apocalyptic

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Writing Fellow 

Introduction to Anthropology of Science & Technology | Dr. Nick Seaver

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Fall 2016​

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Writing Fellow

Religion & Politics in American History | Dr. Heather Curtis 

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Spring 2016

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Exchange Student, Africana Studies

The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

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Fall 2015

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Teaching Assistant 

Race in America | Professor Jean Wu 

works in progress 

Jon Jon is currently working on his first manuscript.