Columbia Journal, The Hopkins Review, Gay Mag, The Normal School, Epiphany, Santa Monica Review, Brevity and elsewhere. The recipient of a summer prose fellowship from The University of Arizona Poetry Center, her work has been cited as notable in The Best American Essays and appeared in The Best Microfiction 2022. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches fiction writing at UCLA Extension. Originally from Upstate New York, she lives in Los Angeles.
Jones's new collection is The Goodbye Process: Stories.
At Electric Lit the writer tagged nine transformative books about letting go and moving on, including:
Wild by Cheryl StrayedRead about the other entries on the list.
The memoir Wild follows Strayed as she hikes 1,100 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail four years after her beloved mother’s death from cancer. Strayed confronts her grief head-on, processing memories of her mother’s death and the dissolution of her marriage. Each step is a step toward letting go of her pain, and moving on from her past mistakes and traumas.
Wild is among Jill Talbot's seven realistic portraits of mothers and daughters in literature, Katherine May's nine top books on the very human importance of walking, Monique Alice's six books that will inspire you to lace up your hiking boots, and Jeff Somers's five top books with Mother Nature as antagonist.
--Marshal Zeringue
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