I. S. Jones

I.S. Jones is an American/Nigerian poet and essayist whose chapbook Spells of My Name (Newfound, 2021) was selected by Newfound for its Emerging Poets Chapbook Series. Jones has received support from Hedgebrook, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Callaloo, Brooklyn Poets, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Guernica, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Prairie Schooner, among others. For the last three years, she served as the director of the Watershed Reading Series with the Art + Literature Laboratory. Jones is an instructor with Brooklyn Poets and a 2023 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholar.