Jonathan Daniel Gardner is a writer from the American South living in Brooklyn, New York. His fiction draws closely on lived experience and often returns to family, religion, class, labor, identity, and the uneasy business of becoming a self. His stories tend to move between the South and the city, interrogating social performance, and the ways people try, fail, and occasionally manage to know one another.

His work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Berlin Literary Review, Identity Theory, Maudlin House, and elsewhere. He holds a degree in Creative Writing from The New School and is at work on his first novel, In Moon I Keep You.