Jonathan Smulian is a descendant of a family that left
Lithuania in the 1880s and emigrated to the Cape Colony in South Africa. He is retired
after 60 years of practice as an international city and regional planner and
architect. He has lived in many cities in 12 countries and has worked in 26 countries In Africa, Europe, the Middle and Far East, the Caribbean
and Central and South America. He was
born in South Africa and has three nationalities
having emigrated to the UK and later to the USA .He is a graduate of the Universities
of Cape Town and Liverpool.
He is the author of hundreds of published reports, articles
and commentaries on urban development and architecture and more recently his
short stories. essays and poems have been published in a number of literary
and online journals in the USA. He has experienced wars,
earthquakes, hurricanes and uprisings in many parts of the world and travelled
extensively for both work and pleasure.
After living in a new town in Virginia and in the forest in Vermont he
now lives with his artist wife in an historic 19C bungalow in Houston Texas where in the days
of a pandemic he spends his time enjoying life
and writing and illustrating his work.