About Jonathan Crowe

Jonathan Crowe blogs about maps at The Map Room, reviews books, and writes science fiction and fantasy. He’s been published by AE, Calafia, Mermaids Monthly, The New York Review of Science Fiction, the Ottawa Citizen, Strange Horizons and Tor.com (now Reactor).

His sf fanzine, Ecdysis, was a two-time finalist for the Aurora Award. Other past projects include DFL, a blog about last-place finishes at the Olympics that made him world famous for 10 days in 2004, and Gartersnake.info, a website for garter snake keepers.

Jonathan has been interviewed or profiled by Agence France-Presse, the BBC World Service, the Boston Globe, CBC Newsworld, CTV Newsnet, Folha de São Paolo, the Hamilton Spectator, the National Post, Reuters, RTÉ, Sports Illustrated, the Toronto Star and the West Quebec Post, among others. He has also appeared as a panelist and presenter at science fiction conventions like Can-Con, Readercon, Scintillation and SFContario.

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Jonathan holds degrees in history from the universities of Winnipeg and Waterloo and is a former civil servant, snake breeder and reporter. He lives in Shawville, Quebec, on a property a friend once described as “living in an Enid Blyton novel,” with his wife and their menagerie of cats, snakes and typewriters. He currently spends an awful lot of his time at the piano.

Contact Me

Send email to contact@jonathancrowe.net.

To send physical mail or packages, ask me for my street address. (No, I’m not posting it online.)

Copyright

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Privacy Policy

1. This website collects no personal information. It does not use cookies, analytics, tracking pixels, or any kind of tracking technology whatsoever. It does not display ads, use external JavaScript or rely on CDNs.
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Gartersnake.info and The Map Room are ad-supported, and The Map Room, as a WordPress-powered blog, uses a great deal of the tech in item one, so they (now) have their own privacy policies.

Disclosures and Disclaimers

1. I participate in affiliate advertising programs run by Amazon and Bookshop. Revenue is generated from qualifying purchases made through links on this website.
2. When I review a book, I state whether I have received a complimentary review copy from its author or publisher.
3. I don’t always know what I’m talking about.

Colophon

jonathancrowe.net is Jonathan Crowe’s personal website. It was registered in 2011, replacing mcwetboy.com (which was his personal website from 2001 to 2011). This iteration is built using Eleventy; previous versions ran on Movable Type (until 2016) and WordPress (2016–2025). Hosted by DreamHost.