J. John Nordstrom (“Joe”) aka Joseph John Jablonski, Jr., J.D., PhD, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and raised in the small suburb town of Millbury, by mother Sandra and his late father Joe Sr. He is a poet, novelist, lawyer, sociologist, and political scientist. His poetry and fiction nom de plume, J. John Nordstrom, was taken in honor of great-grandmother Gerda E. Nordstrom and grandmother, Elna E. (Nordstrom) Anderson, as well as his mother Sandra Lenore (Anderson) Jablonski, who have all, in their own ways, majorly encouraged his literary endeavors. His great grandmother gave him a now-treasured copy of Aesop’s Fables for a seventh birthday. The fable of the tortoise and the hare was her favorite, as it is his. His poetry stresses intuition over reason and is heavenly influenced by the Romantic tradition in both America and Britain. It explores natural, emotional, personal and artistic themes, for example, lost love, the mystery of soulmate love, death, beauty, wisdom, the human being’s relationship to nature, the mystery of the Muse, and life’s existential mystery. Nordstrom draws from academic, literary, professional, and personal experiences over his lifetime and weaves them all into a novel called A Thing With Feathers. Nordstrom has remained a bachelor and has several other novels in the works.