Jon is a Derbyshire-born writer, editor and researcher who specialises in amalgams: hybrids, mixtures, collections and crossovers, of poem and game, fantasy and realism, curation and composition.

Many of the books he publishes are multi-author anthologies, co-conceived and edited with Kirsten Irving, designed to bridge the gap between poetry and other genres, including writing on games and film, nature guides, activity books and comics.

He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2012, the Poetry London prize in 2014 and 2016 and the Live Canon International Poetry Prize in 2018. His research on poem-game hybrids was published as a monograph, 'Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Videogames', in 2022.