Jason Prokowiew
Wales, MA
Nonfiction
Jason Prokowiew is the winner of the 2023 PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for his braided memoir War Boys, the story of his Russian father's adoption by Nazis during World War II. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from George Mason University where he was mentored by Bev Lowry. His writing has appeared in Salon, Roxane Gay’s Emerging Writer Series, “The Audacity,” WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Brevity, the Hooghly Review, the North American Review. and on WORLD Channel’s Stories from the Stage. His essay "The Demulcent of Shame," originally published by Roxane Gay, won the 2023 Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction. He’s received support from Bread Loaf, Ucross, Tin House, Ragdale, Monson Arts, and the Mass Cultural Council. He runs his own law office dedicated to disability advocacy and lives on a lake in Massachusetts with his husband.