John Norton

John Norton (July 4, 1936 – August 9, 2015) was an American poet and fiction writer who won the American Book Award in 1990 for The Light at the End of the Bog.

Life John Norton graduated from Boston College and the University of Pennsylvania with an M.A. and Ph.D. He taught at the University of California, Riverside. John moved to San Francisco in the 1970s and soon afterward joined Robert Gluck's Writing Workshop at Small Press Traffic. His poems and stories have appeared in America, New American Writing, CrossConnect, Kayak, Oxygen, Beatitude, Blue Unicorn, Onthebus, and Processed World. John served as board president of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center and the Irish Arts Foundation and he helped organize the Crossroads Irish American Festival.

John lived in San Francisco, and worked in Silicon Valley as a technical writer and editor.

Awards American Book Award

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

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