Jonathan Penner (born 1940 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American fiction writer.
His graduate degrees are from the University of Iowa: M.F.A.
[1] In 1977-78, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
He has been married since 1968 to the writer Lucille Recht Penner, and since 1978 has lived in Tucson.
[2] His stories have appeared in Harper's Magazine, Grand Street, Paris Review,[3] Commentary, and Ploughshares.