Author Biography

Jones's creative nonfiction have appeared in more than 25 journals and anthologies, including Literary Accents, Still: the Journal, and New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writings. She is author or co-author of three previous poetry collections, Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue (Finishing Line, 2010); Balance of Five (Berea, 2015); and Yakety Yak (Don't Talk Back) (Workhorse Writers, 2022). Winner of the 2021 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize from The Heartland Review, she is a past president of Kentucky State Poetry Society and Professor Emerita of English at Berea College, where she taught creative, contemplative, and professional writing. A member of Bluegrass Writers Studio (Eastern Kentucky University) and Berea Writers Circle, she currently co-directs Coming of Age, a writing program for Kentucky women over 55. She is working on two new poetry collections, one including photographs as well as poems.

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