Jason Lee Willis

Imagine the love child of Rambo and Ma Ingalls. That's Jason Lee Willis. Overly nurtured by his Vietnam War veteran father and Lutheran church secretary mother, he grew up in the fantasy realm of South Dakota before his exodus brought him to mysterious Minnesota for college. His love of mythology and storytelling led him to a career as a high school English teacher, where he guided his students in writing poetry, short stories, and even screenplays. As a professional storyteller (isn’t that what English teachers do?), he’s done historical lectures and video series, book talks, radio segments, podcasts, and in 2020 submitted a short story in Rhonda Gilliland’s “foodie” anthology, Cooked to Death. After dabbling in self-publishing for several years, he fully committed to his midlife crisis and released The Alchemist's Map with Fox Pointe Publishing in 2021.

Willis currently lives in Minnesota, where he lives the life of a hobbit by gardening, writing, walking around barefoot, wearing vests, fishing, and going on adventures with his wife, Julie.