• Jones has lived in New York for over four decades and has deep roots in its literary and art scenes
• Because The Beloved Community explores the arts, culture, and working class of New York, the collection has a strong regional appeal
  
• Jones is currently at work on a memoir about being a Black woman poet/artist in the East Village in the 1970s
  
• Timely topics: explores the COVID-19 pandemic, class struggle, and the effects of policing and racial injustice
  
  
• Jones’s last poetry collection, A Lucent Fire, was a finalist for the 2016 Paterson Poetry Prize and the 2016 Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Prize
  
• Jones is the winner of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize awarded by Poets & Writers, which was judged by Henri Cole, Kwame Dawes, and Mary Szybist
  
• Jones has taught poetry workshops for Cave Canem and locally throughout Brooklyn
  
• Potential audiences: readers of feminist poetics and/or African American or Black poetics; readers interested in social justice and conflict; readers from Brooklyn or the New York literary scene