Jason has a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Rhyme and Reason: Poetics as Societal Dialogue was the ethnographic capstone for an anthropology student that searched for meaning in the poetry of spoken word poets in St. Louis, Missouri
In addition to his peer-reviewed “Treading the Atlantic” published in the special edition of the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies – Netherlandic Migrations: Narratives from North America, Jason has also been featured in and has essays in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch "From kente cloth to shrimp: Symbols tell powerful stories", "Where the 'Shrimp' story begins" in The St. Louis American. His most recent poetry appears in The St. Louis Anthology (Belt Publishing, 2019), the latest in their City Anthology Series.