Jason Prokowiew received the PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for War Boys, a braided memoir about his Russian father’s adoption by Nazis during World War II and the trauma he carried into parenthood. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from George Mason University. His writing has appeared in The North American Review, The Guardian, The Hooghly Review, Salon, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and on WORLD Channel’s Stories from the Stage. His Stories from the Stage piece, “Sing,” is the most viewed in the show’s history. He’s received support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, Ragdale, and the Mass Cultural Council. He lives on a lake in Massachusetts with his husband Dave and their greyhound Champ.

2025 Writers Program