Jonathan Daniel Gardner is a writer from the American South living in Brooklyn, New York. His work often moves between the South and the city, interrogating social performance and the ways people try, fail, and occasionally manage to know one another.

He is a winner of The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction, and his writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Berlin Literary Review, Identity Theory, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. He holds a degree in Creative Writing from The New School and is at work on his first novel, In Moon I Keep You.