Jon
Imparato
Writer/Activist
Jon Imparato began his writing career with Logically Affirmative, a fifteen-minute monologue performed live for the Pacific Dance Ensemble. Jon has written his first novel The Good Inside the Grief, a collection of personal memoir essays. He has had three essays from this forthcoming book published. The Shaving Cart, a humorous yet heartbreaking account of caring for men during the AIDS crisis, was the recipient of the prestigious Sherman Hewitt Award for First Place Non Fiction. You Had Me at Afghanistan was published in the literary journal The Wrath-Bearing a Tree. The essay was also chosen to be part of Voices from Afghanistan, a live staged reading designed to amplify Afghan stories. The third, Vagina Warrior, was published in the literary journal Lowestoft Chronicle. He is currently working on his first young adult novel Think Pink.
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You Had Me at Afghanistan
"I never would have thought this beautiful, sensitive man was a soldier."
Vagina Warrior
"The show was Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning, one-woman play, The Vagina Monologues, which had opened Off-Broadway two years before. It was now 1988 and everyone had been waiting for this play to hit Los Angeles. "
The Shaving Cart:
Winner First Place
The Sherman Hewitt
Award for Non fiction
"Call it survivors guilt, call it my need to be the Angel of Mercy, or call it my way to take care of friends and lovers I lost."
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