Bio

Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He’s the author of two best-selling books: Steal Like An Artist (2012) is an illustrated manifesto for creativity in the digital age, and Newspaper Blackout (2010) is a collection of poetry made by redacting words from newspaper articles with a permanent marker.

His work has been featured on 20×200.com, NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. New York Magazine called his work “brilliant,” The Atlantic called him “positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet,” and The New Yorker said his poems “resurrect the newspaper when everybody else is declaring it dead.”

He speaks about creativity in the digital age for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist.

In previous lives, he worked as a librarian, a web designer, and an advertising copywriter.

He grew up in the cornfields of Ohio, but now he lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Meghan, his son, Owen, and his dog, Milo.

To get in touch, drop him a line.

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Steal Like An Artist talk at UX Week San Francisco
August 2012

PBS Newshour feature on Newspaper Blackout
September 2010

Press

• Mashable
  “Twitterature: 14 Connected Authors Worth Your Follow”
  September 2012
• The Atlantic
  “Steal Like an Artist: Creativity in the Age of the Remix”
  March 2012
• Huffington Post
  “Press Censorship: Austin Kleon’s ‘Newspaper Blackout’”
  March 2012
• Time
  30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs
  January 2012
• MediaBistro
  “Austin Kleon Parlays ‘Steal Like an Artist’ Lecture into Book Deal”
  November 2011
• The Atlantic
  “Steal Like an Artist: Austin Kleon Speaks on Combinatorial Creativity”
  September 2011
• PBS Newshour
  “Texas Poet Twists Newsprint Into Verse”
  September 2010
• The New Yorker
  “All The News That’s Fit To Print”
  April 2010
• The Wall Street Journal
  “A Magic Marker + A Newspaper = Blackout Poetry”
  April 2010