![]() ![]() She served as Official Poet for the City of Sunrise, Florida’s Little Free Libraries Initiative from 2013 to 2015, and her work was recognized in the 2014 Poets and Writers Maureen Egen Writer’s Exchange Contest and the 2015 Academy of American Poets Contest at Florida International University. ![]() Jones earned an MFA in poetry from Florida International University, where she was a John S. Jones is the author of three poetry collections: REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City Press, forthcoming 2021) dark // thing (Pleiades Press, 2019), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry and Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press, 2017), winner of the silver medal in poetry in the Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including CNN, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Prelude, Steel Toe Review, Fjords Review, Quiet Lunch, Poets Respond to Race Anthology, Night Owl, T he Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, pluck!, Valley Voices: New York School Edition, Fjords Review: Black American Edition, PMSPoemMemoirStory, Kinfolks Quarterly, Tough Times in America Anthology, and Lucid Moose Press’ Like a Girl: Perspectives on Femininity Anthology. ![]()
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