Editor | Journalist | Educator
Madison April Jones [she/her]
I am a Seattle-based Transgender woman journalist, with over 75+ articles published so far in the United States and abroad. In my writing, I cover topics including LGBTQIA+ issues, travel, entertainment, news, and politics. These days, I keep myself primarily occupied as managing editor of the third-oldest LGBTQIA newspaper in the United States, the Seattle Gay News (SGN).My work has also been published in the Seattle Times, South Seattle Emerald, and Stonewall News NW. I am also currently a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation's (IWMF) Safety Ambassador program.
Introduction
About me
From a young age, I have held a fascination with the written word. From Reading Rainbow with LeVar Burton to Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, as an adult I continue to share a voracious appetite for books and other forms of written knowledge.Despite having strongly queer and feminist inclinations during my childhood, I stayed closeted (due to a lack of LGBTQ+ knowledge) while growing up in Eastern Washington state.Then at 21 years old, the growing misery and frustrations of a cisgender, heteronormative male life's experience forced upon me at birth led to the point of a complete mental breakdown and identity crisis. That is when I began to discover and realize who I had truly been all this time.
After I completed my Master of Arts in Political Science at the University of British Columbia in 2021, I cycled through a variety of jobs before landing on a professional career in journalism. I began writing in early 2024, while working abroad as an English teacher in Taipei, Taiwan. Once I returned to the US, I started to write more regularly for the Seattle Gay News (SGN), where I become its managing editor in July 2025 and have continued to lead its newsroom ever since.