Jon Billman - NMU English

BA in English, Iowa Wesleyan College
MFA, Eastern Washington University 

Jon Billman received his MFA at Eastern Washington University in 1996. His fiction and journalism have appeared in such places as Esquire, The Paris Review, and Outside. He is the author of the story collection When We Were Wolves (Random House) and The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wilderness (Grand Central). He teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and film. He also coordinates and leads field courses on Granite Island, a 2.5-acre former United States Coast Guard light station in Lake Superior. He is currently at work on a nonfiction book about shipwrecks, a UFO, and the Cold War over Lake Superior. 

• Fiction
• Magazine Journalism
• Creative Nonfiction

“Sixty is the New 25,” Outside, Feb./March 2016

“One Way to Die in the West,” Mountain, Deep Winter 2016

“Fatbikes vs. the Polar Vortex,” Outside Online, March 11, 2014

“Squaring the Legend of Troy James Knapp,” Outside Online, April 10, 2013