Life

John Norton graduated from Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

 and the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 with an M.A. and Ph.D. He taught at the University of California, Riverside

University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...

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John moved to San Francisco in the 1970s and soon afterward joined Robert Gluck's Writing Workshop at Small Press Traffic

Small Press Traffic

Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center was founded in 1974 in San Francisco. It had a storefront in the Mission District during the 1970s and 1980s...

. His poems and stories began to appear in a variety of small magazines and literary journals, including America, New American Writing, CrossConnect, Kayak, Oxygen, Beatitude, Blue Unicorn, Onthebus, and Processed World.

John served as Board President of Small Press Traffic

Small Press Traffic

Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center was founded in 1974 in San Francisco. It had a storefront in the Mission District during the 1970s and 1980s...

 Literary Arts Center and the Irish Arts Foundation. He helped organize the Crossroads Irish American Festival.

He has read from his work in San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Riverside, Rochester, and Toulouse, France.

John lives in San Francisco, and works in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...

as a technical writer and editor.

Works

• Air Transmigra (San Francisco: Ithuriel's Spear) August 2010. ISBN 9780979330066
• Re:Marriage (San Francisco: Black Star Series) 2000. ISBN 9780960763054
• The Light at the End of the Bog, (San Francisco: Black Star Series) 1989, 1992 ISBN 9780685610947
• Posthum(or)ous (San Francisco: e. g. press) 1985 (chapbook)

Anthologies

• Beatitude 1959-2009 Golden Anniversary Anthology, (America's Press, 2010) ISBN 9780615293943
• The Before Columbus Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990, (W.W. Norton & Company, 1991) ISBN 9780393308334