Jason Mott is an American novelist and poet. His fourth novel,Hell of a Book, won the 2021National Book Award for Fiction.

Mott was born inBolton, North Carolina.^[1] He attendedCape Fear Community College and graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington with aBachelor of Fine Arts in Fiction and aMaster of Fine Arts in Poetry.^[2]

Mott's debut novel,The Returned, was published in 2013. It centered on the return of dead people to the living world and their impact on the daily lives of the people around them. The novel was adapted into the television seriesResurrection, which was produced byABC Studios and aired in 2014.^[2]

Mott's second novel,The Wonder of All Things, was published in 2014. It is amagically realistic look at the tension between protecting a child's gift of supernatural healing and sacrificing it for the greater good.^[3]

Mott's third novel,The Crossing, was published in 2018. It is adystopian thriller that follows two siblings forced on the run to do whatever it takes to survive.^[4]

Mott's fourth and most critically acclaimed novel,Hell of a Book, was published byE. P. Dutton on June 29, 2021.^[5] It is at times an absurdist and metafictional look into the complex and fraught African American experience. On November 17, 2021, the novel was awarded the 2021National Book Award for Fiction.^[6] It also received the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Prize for Fiction^[7] and the 2022 Housatonic Book Award for Fiction.^[8] It was shortlisted for the 2022Chautauqua Prize.^[9] It was also longlisted for the 2022Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction,^[10] the 2022Aspen Words Literary Prize,^[11] and the 2022Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize.^[12] It was also a finalist for the 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award.^[13]

Mott was the recipient of a 2024National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Creative Writing.^[14]

• 2024National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Creative Writing^[14]

• — (2013).The Returned. Don Mills, Ontario:Mira Books.ISBN 978-0-7783-1533-9.
• — (2014).The Wonder of All Things. Don Mills, Ontario:Mira Books.ISBN 978-0-7783-1652-7.
• — (2018).The Crossing. Toronto, Ontario:Park Row Books.ISBN 9780778330738.
• — (2021).Hell of a Book: Or the Altogether Factual, Wholly Bona Fide Story of a Big Dreams, Hard Luck, American-Made Mad Kid. New York:Dutton.ISBN 978-0-593-33096-8.

• — (2009).We Call This Thing Between Us Love. Charlotte, North Carolina: Main Street Rag Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-59948-210-1.
• — (2011)."...hide behind me...". Charlotte, North Carolina: Main Street Rag Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-59948-316-0.

• — (2023). "Best of Luck". Seattle, Washington:Amazon Original Stories.ISBN 978-1-6625-1671-9.

• Official website
• Jason Mott at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database

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• University of North Carolina at Wilmington alumni
• African-American male writers

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