About Me

Currently Working On: Batter's Box, a gay baseball romance novel

Jarred Corona is an author, poet, playwright, actor, video essayist, saxophonist, and musical theatre composer. He graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2020. Corona finds a particular interest in the macabre, the enticing, and the absurd. If you ask him to bake for you, he'll either make you an Italian focaccia loaf or entirely too many cookies. So many cookies, in fact, you'll get quite annoyed with him. But hey, he'll win you back with all his groan-worthy puns.

My Story

Writing has always been one of my foremost loves. In first grade, my elder sister and I wrote a short story about a haunted house. A year later, I was writing some crazy cross-over fanfiction mixing Pokemon, Power Rangers, Naruto and more. Every year, I read more than anyone else in my class. I was a quiet sort of boy who preferred reading to playing around with others.

The Inheritance Cycle is what really inspired me to get to writing my own novels. As a young kid into weird worlds and magic, to hear the story of another young person succeeding in publishing was awe-inspiring. I set to work on a series of sci-fi novels that followed a middle school-aged serial killer named Bobby. By the time I hit high school, I had four novel drafts, all of which are dreadful, really, but can be read over on my Patreon.

High school introduced me to theatre. My senior year, the theatre director asked me to write a murder mystery very loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. It was the first time I wrote for the stage, and it was exciting. I went to college for theatre, and I decided then and there I would be a playwright (amongst other things). In order to write Memeical: The Meme Musical for my undergraduate capstone, I had to branch out into lyricism and musical composition.

Turns out, I'm a rather greedy guy. With every new stage in my life, there are new things I want to write. There are more forms of expression I want to absorb. I've been playing the saxophone for over 15 years. I go out exploring with my camera. I've recently taken to learning how to code. Yet always, my first love is writing.

I'm at my happiest when I'm sharing art with someone else, whether it's mine, theirs, or someone else's. My future husband and I will spend plenty of time cuddling in front of a screen while we share films together. That's to say, I hope you try your own hand at creating, that you share your creations, and you always shout from the rooftops about all the art and artists you love.

Long live language. Long live expression. Long live art.

Down with censorship.