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About the Author..
Jason Schmidt
Jason Schmidt was born in Eugene, Oregon, in 1972 and was raised up and down the I-5 corridor — but mostly on Seattle’s Capitol Hill.
Artists II is the second volume of Jason Schmidt's ongoing photographic documentation of today's most significant artists.
Jason is the author of A LIST OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T KILL ME, a memoir published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a Macmillan imprint. His writing has appeared in Jeopardy Magazine, Cranky Literary Journal and ZYZZYVA, only one of which has since gone out of business.
He took first place in the 4th quarter of the 1998 L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (yes, you read that right), and is the recipient of a 4Culture Art Projects grant. He holds a BA in Creative Writing and a JD, both from the University of Washington.
As a law student he received the Frank E. Holman & Judge William Steinert scholarships, and a CALI Excellence for the Future Award. He can make a large cheese pizza in under 40 seconds.
Jason has appeared at West of Lenin Theatre, and Jennifer Jasper‘s Fami